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Save Your Knees and Wrists

Tue, 15 May 2012 06:28:05 MDT

Save Your Knees

A Canadian study found that 81% of joint replacement patients were classified as overweight or obese. But most knee problems can be avoided:

Lose Weight. Carrying around extra fat puts extra wear and tear on your joints, impairing function.

Strengthen Leg Muscles. Something as simple and inexpensive as walking or climbing stairs can do wonders to strengthen your knees.

Wear Supportive Shoes. When properly fitted, shoe orthotics help support the arches of your feet, giving your entire body a more stable platform.

All In the Wrist?

Do you have pain in your wrist? If you do that means there's a problem in your wrist.

Double Crush: Double Crush occurs when nerves going to or from YOUR wrist are ‘pressured’ in the carpal tunneland the spine, shoulder, neck or elbow. Resolving carpal tunnel problems requires looking beyond the wrist.

The Tunnel: The 8 small bones of your wrist are called carpals. They form a "tunnel" for the nerves and tendons that control your fingers to pass through. If any of the bones forming this tunnel loses its proper alignment, nerve pressure, inflammation and pain will result.

Chiropractic Can Help: In carpal tunnel cases, chiropractic adjustments produce excellent results. If you have wrist pain, call the office for a simple test. If the findings suggest further evaluation, we’ll discuss these with you fully. You won’t be sorry.

CALL (303) 998-1000 NOW

Drs. Daniel & Richelle Knowles, network family wellness center, 1715 15th St, Boulder, CO 80304

Why Women Need TESTOSTERONE

Wed, 09 May 2012 08:14:50 MDT

Why Women Need

TESTOSTERONE?

Research has shown that women need testosterone. Now I am not saying they need anywhere asmuch as men, but they do NEED it. What most people don’t realize is that women need testosterone in small amounts to balance their hormones.

If they don’t have enough of this hormone, they can experience a sexual dysfunction of some type.

Women who are suffering sexual dysfunctions may need testosterone.

One of the best ways to help sexual dysfunction is to get some all natural testosterone cream from a company called West Coast Anti Aging.

It’s easy to use and it even makes your skin smoother and more supple.

Slightly increasing a females testosterone levels can decrease with age - restores libido, increases her arousal response, and the relative frequency of sexual fantasy. In fact, low testosterone levels have been viewed as a contributing cause for female sexual dysfunction.

While expensive testosterone drug patches are available to women by prescription, “natural approaches” like the all natural DHEA Youth Enhancement creams from West Coast can help raise testosterone levels safely and inexpensively.

DHEA levels decline with AGE after peaking when a woman is in her twenties, increasing the risk of heat disease, cancer, osteoporosis and female dysfunction.

DHEA is released into the bloodstream by the adrenal glands and is a precursor of both testosterone and estrogen. Studies show that increasing levels of your DHEA will result in an increase in testosterone levels in females.

Rebalancing your hormonal levels as a woman is a KEY strategy in reversing female sexual dysfunction. Pick up a jar at the front desk today.

Network Family Wellness Center Daniel Knowles D.C. and Richelle Knowles D.C.

1715 15th Street Boulder, CO 80302

(303) 998-1000

Sometimes Its Not This EASY

Wed, 09 May 2012 07:43:44 MDT

Sometimes…

It’s Not This EASY.

The most dangerous part of receiving a chiropractic adjustment is driving your car in traffic to the office. The truth is that even so-called ‘safe’ drugs aren’t totally harmless. They can’t be, otherwise they wouldn’t be drugs.

In an average twelve-month period, more than 1.5 MILLION hospitalized people suffer from the side effects of the drugs and therapy they receive there. Aspirin alone sends about 1,600 people to the hospital each year that DIE from gastric bleeding.

Drug interaction also creates a serious problem. Some individual drugs may be relatively benign, but taken together, they can be deadly. Make sure you’re getting regular chiropractic adjustments. They do help SAVE LIVES.

Network Family Wellness Center Daniel Knowles D.C. and Richelle Knowles D.C.

1715 15th Street Boulder, CO 80302

(303) 998-1000

Obesity Epidemic

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 06:07:37 MDT

Obesity Epidemic?

I don’t know about you… but eating habits are learned at an early age – so you want to help your kids and grandkids develop healthy eating habits that will last a lifetime.

People just love to squeeze chubby cheeks on little babies and young children and tell them how cute they are! But childhood obesity is becoming an epidemic problem. And there isn’t even any agreement on how to measure it!

According to a recent article in the International Journal of Pediatric Obesity, approximately 50% of all children in North and South America, 38% of all children in Europe will be overweight. Dr. Philip James, Chairman of the International Obesity Task Force, states, “We have truly a global epidemic which appears to be affecting most countries in the world.”

Researchers studied medical reports on obesity for 25 years and the World Health Organization tracked obesity growth rate trends in pre-adolescents in 42 countries. Their findings - that the combination of JUNK FOOD and inactive lifestyles were largely responsible for the alarming growth rate in childhood obesity worldwide.

And since obese children generally become obese adults, you can anticipate a steady increase in many health-related conditions (i.e., heart problems, diabetes, and strokes) that will severely tax health resources.

Here are a few suggestions to manage obesity in children and adolescents:

Make better food selections when shopping

Increase your physical activities, even if you just walk

Less television and video games and more family events

Control portion size and use smaller plates

Eat meals at the family table, not in front of the TV

Avoid using food to reward or punish as this becomes emotional

Limit amount of evening snacking (you get FAT eating late)

In an effort to help curb this disturbing trend, many schools are removing “junk” food as menu selections and from vending machines. Get the JUNK FOOD out of your home, and follow the suggestions outlined above.

Network Family Wellness Center

Danny Knowles D.C. and Richelle Knowles D.C.

1715 15th Street

Boulder, CO 80302

(303) 998-1000

Network Family Wellness Center Daniel Knowles D.C. and Richelle Knowles D.C.1715 15th StreetBoulder, CO 80302(303) 998-1000

Boulder chiropractor shares tips for spring cleaning

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 05:42:52 MDT

Spring Cleaning

It’s that time of year! People dust the corners and break out the ladder for spring cleaning. But many people are unaware of the potential risk of injury that may occur as the result of spring cleaning. You need to know that thousands of injuries occur every year with the use of simple gardening tools.

Even more injuries occur as the result of handling a ladder improperly. So the key to avoid spring cleaning injuries is to know your LIMITS. It’s easy and tempting to take on more spring cleaning chores than your body can accommodate because you don’t feel the ‘pain’ immediately. So be sure to take breaks throughout. Another important idea is to stretch before spring cleaning. Yes, S-T-R-E-T-C-H. A little stretching can go a long way to prevent injuring your back and neck. Here are some simple rules I want you to follow so you don’t injure your back.

“Five Rules To Avoid Spring Cleaning Injuries… Inside Your Home.”

Rule 1

Prepare an appropriate schedule. Write out what you’re going to do. When you do, you’ll get more done. Don’t try to complete too many tasks at once as this can cause you to hurry and may increase your risk of injury.

Rule 2

Reduce the strain on your back and knees when cleaning the floor by using the right TOOLS. EXAMPLE: Clean the floor with a mop, as opposed to washing the floor on your hands and knees. Doing this will save your knees, and you’re going to feel a lot better tomorrow.

Rule 3

Use a steady and wide base of support. This is a basic rule but one that you don’t want to break. Use a step stool - instead of a piece of furniture - to dust in high corners. Using furniture is a big NO NO.

Rule 4

Have someone assist you when moving furniture to clean. I know you’re big and strong, but you need to adhere to this rule. Do not try to lift heavy objects by yourself for spring cleaning activities. Remember to squat and lift object with the support of your knees, not your back.

Rule 5

This step is really important. Use long strokes to push the vacuum instead of short strokes. Pushing and pulling the vacuum in short, hurried strokes can hurt your back, and you know that can be very painful.

Danny Knowles D.C. and Richelle Knowles D.C.

1715 15th Street

Boulder, CO 80302

(303) 998-1000

Network Family Wellness Center

Daniel Knowles D.C. and Richelle Knowles D.C.1715 15th StreetBoulder, CO 80302

(303) 998-1000

Pain is Not the Problem

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 05:48:58 MDT

Pain is Not the Problem

Many people begin their chiropractic care because of an ache or a pain.

I’m sure you did the same.

The pain that you have can be distracting, debilitating, irritating or annoying.

Pain can be chronic, acute, intense or intermittent.

Pain can be sharp or dull. And pain can be localized or general.

Pain may be a pain, but pain is not the problem!

Pain is a symptom.

A signal. A sign. An indicator. A warning.

*Pain is no more a problem than a traffic light or your alarm clock jarring you awake.*

If there's a problem, it's the meaning we attach to the pain.

When we meet patients who are in pain, our first thought is that they must have exceeded some physical, chemical or emotional limit to which they can no longer adapt.

So, while we're interested in the pain, we're even more interested in what was the underlying cause of the pain. Did it just happen? Has it been present a long time? What circumstances brought it on? What is the concern underlying the pain? What choices have brought you to this point? What change(s) should be made to avoid this in the future? Plus what can be done to empower your body to heal.

Do you know someone who thinks pain is a problem? Have them call the office today. The consultation is FREE. In our practice, pain is never a problem!

Network Family Wellness Center

Danny Knowles D.C. and Richelle Knowles D.C.

1715 15th Street

Boulder, CO 80302

(303) 998-1000

Network Family Wellness Center

Daniel Knowles D.C. and Richelle Knowles D.C.

1715 15th StreetBoulder, CO 80302 (303) 998-1000

Simple Ways to Get Happy

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 07:00:58 MDT

Simple Ways to Get Happy

Take control of your mood and improve your health.

Here are (9) ideas to get you started. Choose the ones that work for you. If tuning out the news or making lists will serve only to stress you further, try one of these approaches.

1. Practice mindfulness. Be in the moment. Instead of worrying about tomorrow

2. Laugh out loud. Just anticipating a happy, funny event can raise levels of endorphins and other pleasure-inducing hormones and lower production of stress hormones. Researchers at the University of California, Irvine, tested 16 men who all agreed they thought a certain videotape was funny. Half were told three days in advance they would watch it. They started experiencing biological changes right away. When they actually watched the video, their levels of stress hormones dropped significantly, while their endorphin levels rose 27 percent and their growth hormone levels (indicating benefit to the immune system) rose 87 percent.

3. Go to sleep. We have become a nation of sleep-deprived citizens. Taking a daily nap or getting into bed at 8 p.m. one night with a good book — and turning the light out an hour later — can do more for your mood and outlook on life than any number of bubble baths or massages.

4. Hum along. Music soothes more than the savage beast. Studies find music activates parts of the brain that produce happiness — the same parts activated by food or sex. It’s also relaxing. In one study older adults who listened to their choice of music during outpatient eye surgery had significantly lower heart rates, blood pressure, and cardiac workload (that is, their heart didn’t have to work as hard) as those who had silent surgery.

5. Declutter. It’s nearly impossible to meditate, breathe deeply, or simply relax when every surface is covered with papers and bills and magazines, your cabinets bulge, and you haven’t balanced your checkbook in six months. Plus, the repetitive nature of certain cleaning tasks — such as sweeping, wiping, and scrubbing — can be meditative in and of itself if you focus on what you’re doing.

6. Just say ‘No’. Eliminate activities that aren’t necessary and that you don’t enjoy. If there are enough people already to handle the church bazaar and you’re feeling stressed by the thought of running the committee for yet another year, step down and let someone else handle things.

7. Make a list. There’s nothing like writing down your tasks to help you organize your thoughts and calm your anxiety. Checking off each item provides a great sense of fulfillment.

8. Do one thing at a time. Edward Suarez, Ph.D., associate professor of medical psychology at Duke, found that people who multitask are more likely to have high blood pressure. Take that finding to heart. Instead of talking on the phone while you fold laundry or clean the kitchen, sit down in a comfortable chair and turn your entire attention over to the conversation.

9. Tune out the news. For one week go without reading the newspaper, watching the news, or scanning the headlines online. Instead, take a vacation from the misery we’re exposed to every day via the media and use that time for a walk, a meditation session, or to write in your journal.

To discover secret number 10 here

Network Family Wellness CenterDanny Knowles D.C. and Richelle Knowles D.C.

1715 15th StreetBoulder, CO 80302(303) 998-1000

Are You Producing Enough Or Not

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 06:45:03 MDT

Are You Producing Enough… Or Not?

(Don’t take the chance.)

The symptoms of low testosterone usually creep up upon you slowly and quietly.

Because of this, many guys ignore their low testosterone symptoms for months or even years: they literally get used to feeling lousy and functioning poorly. But that can be a deadly mistake.

The symptoms of LOW testosterone can also fool a guy… because they are so ubiquitous.

By that I mean that testosterone affects EVERYTHING in the male.

It affects your brain, your libido, your muscles, your blood - the list goes on and on.

Of course, the number one thing in most guys' mind is how it affects their sex life. Low testosterone affects both libido and erectile strength to varying degrees and that obviously isn't too good for the ol' sex life.

However, common symptoms also include depression, mental fogginess/fuzziness, difficulty concentrating, anxiety, loss of muscle, increased weight gain, decreased facial hair and a general feeling of not caring about anything. When you are low on testosterone, you often just don't care about anything - you just "exist". Pleasure and desire can be greatly decreased greatly affecting your career and your relationships.

Testosterone cream was created to help those who do not produce enough testosterone naturally.

The cream from West Coast is absorbed by your skin and enters your bloodstream.

This testosterone cream does not contain synthetic testosterone. Testosterone creams have shown that they will help increase testosterone in most cases, so make sure you use the safe and natural testosterone cream from West Coast. When you use the creams, make sure you wait until the area is completely dry before you dress. This gives you the best bang for your buck and helps you get the testosterone in your body quicker. You need to cwait 2-6 hours from the time of application before showering or swimming. Get these at the front desk. They can change a man’s life and how he functions.

Danny Knowles D.C. and Richelle Knowles D.C.

1715 15th Street

Boulder, CO 80302

(303) 998-1000

Network Family Wellness CenterDanny Knowles D.C. and Richelle Knowles D.C.1715 15th StreetBoulder, CO 80302(303) 998-1000

www.boulderantiaging.com

Abusing Energy Drinks

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 07:35:50 MDT

Abusing Energy Drinks

More than 500 ‘NEW’ energy drinks launched worldwide this year, and coffee fans are probably too old to understand why. Energy drinks aren't merely popular with young people. They taste like carbonated cough syrup.

Vying for the dollars of teenagers with promises of weight loss, increased endurance and legal highs, the new products join top-sellers Red Bull, Monster and Rockstar to make up a $3.4 billion-a-year industry that ---grew by 80 percent last year.

Thirty-one percent of U.S. teenagers say they drink energy drinks, according to Simmons Research. That represents 7.6 million teens, a jump of almost 3 million in three years.

Nutritionists warn that the drinks, laden with caffeine and sugar, can hook kids on an unhealthy jolt-and-crash cycle. The caffeine comes from multiple sources, making it hard to tell how much the drinks contain. Some have B vitamins, which when taken in megadoses can cause rapid heartbeat, and numbness and tingling in the hands and feet.

But the biggest worry is how some teens use the drinks. Some report downing several cans in a row to get a buzz, and a new study found a surprising number of poison-center calls from young people getting sick from too much caffeine.

"Wow, this drink is some serious stuff. I mean about half the bottle is the warning label, and it is serious, this drink is INSANE. It says that you should not drink it unless you are over 18, which I would say is a good warning." —

They've grown up watching their parents drink Starbucks coffee, and WANT their own version. Heart palpitations aren't likely to scare them off. Most brands target male teens and 20-somethings. Industry leader Red Bull, the first energy drink on the market, is now the "big arena band" of the bunch." Monster is produced by Corona, Calif.-based Hansen Natural Corp.

How much caffeine do energy drinks contain? A University of Florida study found that some products, although served in cans two-thirds the size of a standard can of Coke, contain two to four times the amount of caffeine as that Coke. Energy drinks are unregulated in the United States, but the authors of the University of Florida paper suggest warning labels for them.

And now energy drinks are moving toward bigger cans with the biggest, so far, is 24 ounces.

Think twice before sending your children out the door with an energy drink. Full of sugar and caffeine, energy drinks share the same health problems as soft drinks.

A University of Wisconsin study of 14 students found that two energy drink ingredients, caffeine and taurine, didn't improve short-term memory but led to slower heart rates and higher blood pressure. Since some energy drink ingredients generally speed up heart rates, the researchers could only speculate on the cause. "Drink more than one and you get lots of sugar — 14 teaspoons in two cans, 21 teaspoons in three," Be careful what you’re putting in your body as well as your children’s bodies. Health is something that you don’t want to take for granted. Once it’s gone, it’s gone. Make sure you’re checked regularly as well.

Network Family Wellness Center

Danny Knowles D.C. and Richelle Knowles D.C.

1715 15th Street

Boulder, CO 80302

(303) 998-1000

Network Family Wellness CenterDanny Knowles D.C. and Richelle Knowles D.C.1715 15th StreetBoulder, CO 80302(303) 998-1000

Coffee and Cancer

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 08:20:57 MDT

Coffee and Cancer

By Lindsay Kehl

There may be some good news on the way for all those coffee drinkers.

The benefits of a black cup of coffee seem to continually increase. From

no calories to high energy, it is possible that drinking coffee will soon add

another big plus to the list. Researchers have begun linking coffee to the

reduced risk of many cancers. So enjoying a cup has now become

There may be some good news on the way for all those coffee drinkers.

The benefits of a black cup of coffee seem to continually increase. From

no calories to high energy, it is possible that drinking coffee will soon add

another big plus to the list. Researchers have begun linking coffee to the

reduced risk of many cancers. So enjoying a cup has now become a little

bit more enjoyable knowing your health could be benefiting.Through the recent years researchers have linked coffee to the

reduced risk of several cancers and the list continues to grow.

• In a study published in 2011 Harvard researchers found coffee tobe linked to a lower risk in developing prostate cancer in men. Prostate cancer is one of the most lethal forms of cancer formingin the male reproductive system.

• Soon after, the American Association for Cancer Research in Bostonindicated that regular coffee consumption could reduce the riskof certain types of skin cancers including basal cell carcinoma. Basal cell carcinoma is the most common form of skin cancer. Although, rarely life threatening it is very destructive to the skin.

• Again, in 2011 Harvard researchers linked coffee to the decreasein the risk for endometrial cancer in women. Similarly, endometrialcancer is formed in the lining of the uterus mainly occurring inwomen above 60 years old.

• In addition, Swedish researchers recently found a connectionbetween coffee and lowering the risk for breast cancer. About

12% of women in the U.S. will develop breast cancer atsome point in their lives.These are just a few of the recentlinks to coffee and the reducedrisk of cancer in men and women. However, aside from cancer,researchers have also foundlinks to coffee consumption andthe reduced risk for developingAlzheimer’s, defending againstDiabetes, protect againstParkinson’s disease and muchmore.

Keep in mind, ‘black’ coffee wasused in the research. Coffeeladen with sugars and creamerscould have the opposite effectand instead invite negativehealth issues. Also, researchersare not claiming coffee to be acure-all for cancer and disease. However, the benefits seem tobe continuously to growing forthose that are regular coffeedrinkers.

COMMIT TO YOURSELF!

COMMIT TO THE WORLD!

Lindsay Kehl has been with Performance Food

Centers, Corp. since 1999. She graduated with a

Bachelors Degree in American Studies and is pursing

a career in writing on topics specifically related to

women’s health. She can be contacted at 888-732-

9151 or lkehl@performancefoodcenters.com.

(Sources available upon request)

Menopausal Symptoms

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 07:20:31 MDT

Menopausal Symptoms?

Do you have menopausal symptoms? If you do, you’ll find this short article very helpful.

Dr. John R. Lee, M.D. was a family doctor in Northern California when, in the early 1970s, he began seeing a lot of menopausal women with health complaints who weren't able to use estrogen because of a high cancer risk, heart disease, or diabetes for example.

About that time he attended a lecture by Raymond Peat, Ph.D. who claimed that estrogen was the wrong hormone to be giving menopausal women, and that what they really needed was progesterone.

Dr. Lee took a list of Dr. Peat's references and checked them out, and sure enough, it looked like Dr. Peat was right.

Once he started treating his own patients with a progesterone cream, he saw results immediately. It would seem, progesterone cream is much safer than those synthetic alternatives created by pharmaceutical companies.

These companies can not produce progesterone cream because a natural molecule cannot be patented.

According to Dr John R. Lee, progesterone cream has a molecular structure identical to the progesterone produced by the human body.

What does this mean to you?

Natural replacement of this vital hormone aids to balance the body reducing menopausal symptoms in women.

We have this available to you now. Just ask at the front desk. Start using it as soon as possible to help your menopausal symptoms.

Network Family Wellness Center

Danny Knowles D.C. and Richelle Knowles D.C.

1715 15th Street

Boulder, CO 80302

(303) 998-1000

Network Family Wellness Center Danny Knowles D.C. and Richelle Knowles D.C.

1715 15th StreetBoulder, CO 80302(303) 998-1000

www.boulderantiaging.com

Carpe Diem

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 07:22:30 MDT

That was the one thing I remember from college class and that means a lot to me so…

I’m going to ask you today, what are you doing today to seize your day??

Understand, if you live to age 85, that is only 31,026 days.

Doesn’t seem like a lot of days, does it? Well it’s not. You’ll most likely have more miles on your car, than in the total days you live, so be careful how you spend your time.

My point is, everyday, every hour, every minute here on earth.... is ‘precious’.

What I’ve found it that when you put more time into taking care of yourself, good things happen. Make sure that you’re at every appointment because your body responds better with each and every planned adjustment. I wish you the best and thank you for your referrals.

If you’re just getting by, you shouldn’t be. If you’re not making your appointments, you’re wasting time. You should be doing everything you can to seize your day and to seize your opportunities. If you’re not taking care of your health, you’re not seizing your day.

CALL (303) 998-1000 NOW

They Are Wrong

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 06:12:51 MDT

They Are Wrong

here is a common misconception that chiropractic care is only necessary after accidents and the typical misconception that chiropractic care is just for back pain.

While chiropractic care can be extremely helpful both after accidents and for back pain, the benefits of chiropractic go far beyond both areas.

Chiropractic care is a form of preventative health care which encompasses all of the body’s systems. The goal of chiropractic care is to make sure your body is functioning properly to prevent disease from occurring in the first place.

The savings that could result from a preventative form of health care could be substantial as it may reduce or eliminate the need for surgery, medication or lost time at work in addition to the emotional stress caused by pain and illness.

All people from birth to old age can benefit from chiropractic care due to the stress we put on our bodies on a daily basis by simply performing normal activities. Chiropractic care helps to allow the body to work at peak performance.

You may not realize that you have nerve interference or you may not think a chiropractic adjustment could be beneficial in your situation because you don’t have symptoms, but that is totally bogus. Chiropractors are educated to be able to detect subluxations (misalignments) and you may find unexpected relief for various ailments through regular care.

Chiropractic care can be helpful for:

Headaches

Fatigue

Immune System Boosting

Arthritis

Birth trauma

Breech pregnancy

Pains associated with pregnancy

Sciatica

Scoliosis

Fibro Myalgia

Insomnia

Ear aches

Allergies

This is list does not come close to encompassing what chiropractic care can help but just some examples to give you an idea. We do not cure diseases through spinal adjustments, but rather remove the interference caused by misalignments in your spine which allows the body to do what it was designed to do.

Heal itself.

Network Family Wellness Center

Danny Knowles D.C. and Richelle Knowles D.C.

1715 15th Street

Boulder, CO 80302

(303) 998-1000

Network Family Wellness CenterDanny Knowles D.C. and Richelle Knowles D.C.1715 15th StreetBoulder, CO 80302(303) 998-1000

What Is Causing You To Age And Look Older

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 06:06:21 MDT

What Is Causing You To Age… And Look Older?

Do you really want to be healthy? Are you doing everything you can to avoid looking 20 years older than you are?

FACT: Nearly 100% of all loss of height as you grow older happens because of diseased and dehydrated spinal discs.

FACT: You are born with 23 healthy spinal discs. To keep them healthy you need to nurture them everyday with exercise, water, and good foods.

FACT: If you lose just 1/16th of an inch on each of those discs and you times that small amount to your 23 discs, that will equal almost an INCH and a HALF loss of your overall height.

FACT: Most spinal discs don’t lose as little as 1/16th of an inch in their height, therefore it is easy to see why some people lose as much as 3-6 inches in total body height as they grow older. It’s much like taking a stick and watching it grow shorter and shorter as one continues to whittle the end off of it.

With the proper usage of chiropractic, water, and exercise, you can prevent most height loss problems. Call for an appointment today.

Drs. Daniel & Richelle Knowles, D.C.

Network Family Wellness Center, 1715 15th street, Boulder, CO 80302

303.998.1000

You Your Chiropractic Care

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 06:02:27 MDT

You & Your Chiropractic Care

'm often asked by new patients, how I create their care plan - how many visits and how frequent should they be.

This is a fair question, and this is where experience and the "art" of chiropractic come into play.

During your comprehensive examination, I’ll ask you questions about your condition, your age, your past and present lifestyle, your attitude towards other people, the job, and dozens of other factors.

These are evaluated, recorded and compared with similar cases.

Each one plays a role in the recommendations I make for the first phase of your care.

Here’s an example: Aplane needs enough speed to take off, has to have the right size jet engines, etc. The same is true with our initial recommendations: If the visits are too far apart, we won't create enoughmomentum to reverse the downward trend.

There's a real skill in picking the right balance so I’m not letting you go to long between adjustments.

Sometimes I misjudge, as I am human, but for the most part, my experience has helped me know exactly what you need to get the maximum results.

But most of the time there are other factors - we've identified up to a dozen issues that can be involved. If you're not progressing as quickly as you'd hoped, make sure you call me so we can see what else might be going on.

Network Family Wellness Center

Danny Knowles D.C. and Richelle Knowles D.C.

1715 15th Street

Boulder, CO 80302

(303) 998-1000

Network Family Wellness CenterDanny Knowles D.C. and Richelle Knowles D.C.

1715 15th Street Boulder, CO 80302

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Why Do You Get Sick

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 05:58:30 MDT

Why Do You Get Sick?

Every young child learns that Thomas Edison invented the light bulb. Yet, few people in the U.S.A. know who discovered chiropractic.

But more fascinating than that is why was chiropractic discovered.

It came about in 1895, so take yourself back over a hundred years ago to a time when "patent medicines" flourished.

These were often sold as cure alls whose active ingredients were usually alcohol, cocaine, arsenic and a host of other dangerous substances.

In the midst of all of this, a healer, experimenter and freethinker by the name of Daniel David Palmer in Davenport, Iowa asked a simple question:

"I desired to know why one person was ailing and his associate eating at the same table, working in the same shop was not. Why? What difference was there in the two persons that caused one to have pneumonia, catarrh, typhoid or rheumatism, while his partner, similarly situated, escaped? Why?"

At a time when germs were given the blame for virtually every disease, this was a groundbreaking way of framing the question about health.

Germs alone couldn't be the cause of disease, otherwise everyone would get sick.

Chiropractic came into existence soon afterwards.

D.D. Palmer discovered that it's smarter to look at the person with the disease, rather than the disease in the person. Revolutionary then - and still revolutionary!

Call the office today and take advantage of our chiropractic services. You will love the changes that take place, and the staff will take care of you like family. If you’re already a patient, make sure that you share this handout with your friends, family and co- workers. Wouldn’t you want someone to help you if you were having health issues? Sure you would.

CALL (903) 998-1000NOW

Network Family Wellness Center

Danny Knowles D.C. and Richelle Knowles D.C.

1715 15th Street

Boulder, CO 80302

(303) 998-1000

Network Family Wellness CenterDanny Knowles D.C. and Richelle Knowles D.C.1715 15th StreetBoulder, CO 80302(303) 998-1000

Chiropractic Adjustments Dont Cure Anything

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 05:46:52 MDT

Chiropractic Adjustments

Don’t Cure Anything…

·Whiplash

· Back Pain

· Allergies

· Asthma

· Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

· Headaches

· Neck Pain

· Shoulder Pain

· Migraines

· Acid Reflux

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Why Chiropractic

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 05:20:07 MDT

Why Chiropractic?

(4 Big Reasons You Have To Remember!)

> Prevention

I know you think because you don’t have any pain, you’re healthy. Well I hate to tell you this, but if you don’t have a toothache, that doesn’t mean you don’t have a cavity. Regular chiropractic care allows your body to function normally and correctly. It is a scientific fact that your brain, spinal cord, and the rest of your nerves control every aspect of your body. Any imbalance (dysfunction) in your spine can cause an adverse effect to the overall health of you and those around you, such as your family. You may not ‘feel’ bad, but if something is wrong, the organs are affected. If Chiropractic care starts at birth, you can achieve a higher level of health and wellness throughout life… naturally!

> Vitality Chiropractic care has been helping families have vital lives for over 100 years. Vital healthexpression is the result of a properly aligned spine, a healthy lifestyle, and a positive mental attitude. If you’re like most families you want a safe and natural health care solution. Drugs all have side effects, and these side effects don’t necessarily affect you when you take them. It can happen years later. More and more people are choosing Chiropractic care FIRST, because it makes good sense. No other form of health care is safer. Chiropractic is a great choice for family vitality in the new millennium.

> Performance/Function On the job, on the track, on the court, at home, or anywhere, Chiropractic improves human performance. I could say it helps you function better. Chiropractic patients experience a higher level of performance and stamina in all areas of life, as their bodies function optimally from the inside out. When you injure yourself, you always heal from the inside out. You deserve to be your best. Why not experience life at the top of your game? Make sure you’re checked today and you refer your friends to us today so they can feel the difference.

> Quality of Life This is a biggie. Our lives are a direct result of the decisions we make. Make the right choices and things get better. Because health is not a given, we must make decisions that impact our health every day. Chiropractic improves the quality of your life. Your health is your responsibility and your health decisions WILL affect the quality of your life. Helping you maximize your health is the goal of this office.

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High Testosterone Levels DECREASE The Chances Of A Heart Attack By 30

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 05:16:41 MDT

High Testosterone LevelsDECREASE The Chances

Of A Heart Attack By 30%

~Temecula, CA I’m not sure of your levels of testosterone, if you’re worried about a heart attack, if you’ve had one before, or you just don’t care, but if you’re over 30… you probably are “low” in testosterone and you should pay attention to what I’m going to tell you in this flyer.

Low testosterone levels in middle aged and older men are LINKED to premature DEATH, type 2 diabetes, decreased muscle mass, depression, decreased sexual performance and cardiovascular disease. Not good signs of being healthy if you know what I mean?

I found a Swedish study that showed that men with the highest blood levels of testosterone (the top 23 percent; which meant a testosterone level of greater than 550 ng/dl) had a 30 percent reduced risk of heart attack… than men with lower levels of testosterone.

This was a great study because first of all it was a five year study and secondly, they examined nearly 2,500 men, aged 69-81 and checked their levels of testosterone throughout the study, so they knew if testosterone was really that important.

Here’s something else they found out. Death rates were also lower in men with the lowest levels of steroid hormone-binding globulin --- an important chemical determining the levels of biologically active FREE testosterone. The effects of using a specialized testosterone on preventing premature death from heart disease are unknown. (Journal of American College Cardiology, 58:1674-1681, 2011)

If you want to get started on a specialized testosterone crème that is now available, ask me or my staff. We’ll get you started on this amazing testosterone crème from West Coast the very same day. You’ll be a raving fan of this creme, once you see the changes. Get yours today.

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What is Lifepak nano

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 07:10:54 MDT

LifePak NANO

Invest in your Health.

It’s the wisest investment you’ll ever make.

A new scientific breakthrough from the unparalleled research teams at Pharmanex, LifePak NANO is an incredible leap in science. There is nothing else in existence that comes anywhere close to LifePak Nano, and that is absolutely verified by science.

So, what makes LifePak Nano unique? The challenge to nutrition in the past has always been that powerful fat-soluble antioxidants such as carotenoids and CoQ10 tend to bunch together in the intestine, making them difficult to absorb. No matter how small the particles are, if they are bunched together, they cannot get through the intestinal walls. That is why so much of what you are taking is wasted. To greatly enhance absorption, Pharmanex Scientists actually encapsulate the individual molecules, causing them to separate. This process prevents molecules from clinging together, so they are more available for easy absorption. In the case of the extremely powerful antioxidant Coenzyme Q10, this process of nano encapsulation increases bioavailability by 5-10 times (Craft et al, 2005). That means ten milligrams of Pharmanex NanoCoQ10TM compares to 50 to 100 mgs of other CoQ10 products!

LifePak Nano is the Rolls-Royce of supplements.

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Chiropractic boulder change your life forever

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 06:06:13 MST

Change Your LIFE Forever.

here are an increasing number of people today that are complaining of a lack of energy, unexplained weight gain, poor mood, depression and insomnia. So what are you supposed to do if you have these symptoms?

Use a cream called DHEA from West Coast Anti Aging.

DHEA is a hormone produced by your adrenal glands and in your brain, which was first discovered by scientists in the 1930's.

Your body's natural production of DHEA varies widely with age, with very low levels produced before puberty, peak production in your late 20's or early 30's, followed by a steady decline in production with advancing age.

This age-related pattern of production has lead many to believe that DHEA production may actually be linked to the aging process itself.

DHEA supplementation with crèmes (if you're deficient) may help you turn back the clock, as it were, as it can help:

Lower fat storage through improved thyroid response

Stimulate bone deposition

Increase muscle tone

Improve mood (including fighting depression)

Fight cancer

Sub-optimal levels of DHEA have also been associated with many age-related degenerative conditions, including:

Chronic inflammation

Low libido

Immune dysfunction

Cognitive decline

Rheumatoid arthritis

Osteoporosis

Increased risk for certain cancers

Some complications of type II diabetes.

Can DHEA really help you with these conditions?

DHEA or more precisely DHEA sulfate (your body naturally converts DHEA-S to the DHEA that it uses) is the most abundant precursor hormone in the human body, meaning that it is the largest raw material your body uses to produce other vital hormones, including testosterone in men and estrogen in women.

One thing we know for certain about human adrenals -- besides making DHEA -- they also manufacture cortisol, which is in direct competition with DHEA for production.

In other words, when cortisol production is high, especially for prolonged periods of time, your adrenals can actually wear out, and DHEA production will necessarily suffer.

You don’t want that to happen. So a natural question follows: What is cortisol and what causes an increase in its production?

The Stress Connection

Cortisol is the hormone your body produces in response to stress, real or imagined, which is why it's commonly referred to as "the stress hormone". So if you’re stressed, you’re producing cortisol.

Adrenal exhaustion from coping with chronic stress means your adrenal glands are overworked from manufacturing cortisol, and they simply can't produce enough DHEA to support a healthy hormonal balance.

The result?

You feel exhausted, often depressed, and your muscle tone decreases while body fat increases (cortisol tells your body to store fat).

So with that said, symptoms of chronically elevated cortisol levels include:

Increased abdominal fat

Stomach ulcers

Suppressed immune response

Mild memory loss (words, names and numbers)

Accelerated aging

Suppressed thyroid function

Inflammation

You hear all the time about how bad stress is for your body.

Well now you're looking at the actual hormone responsible for much of the damage. That’s why it’s so important that you learn more about your hormones and how to work with them.

Clearly it pays healthy dividends to reduce stress in your life, not only to reduce cortisol production, but also to ensure that your body has adequate adrenal strength to keep your DHEA levels optimal.

When DHEA Supplementation Makes Sense

First, let me start by saying that homeopathic DHEA should ideally ONLY be used under the guidance of a doctor like me.

If you've been living long stretches of your life on a poor diet, not getting adequate sleep, and overwhelmed by the daily grind -- chances are you're a good candidate for DHEA crème.

If you're feeling tired and overwhelmed, have low libido, and find your mood suffering or even experience depression regularly, there is a strong chance that your body is not producing enough DHEA.

You can fight this all you want, but why not get the problem corrected, and change your life forever?

Maintaining optimal DHEA levels may also be useful for:

Athletes looking to improve performance

Increasing sex drive

Improving recovery time from stress and physical training

Increasing sense of well being

Weight loss

Improving sleep

Muscle gain

Improving mood

The scientific jury is still out on the subject, but it appears normal daily DHEA production for an average person in their 20's is between 10-25 mg.

Remember your body's hormone balance is a delicate mechanism that should only be supplemented after consulting a doctor.

Another important co-factor when considering DHEA supplementation is that your body naturally produces DHEA in the morning and then either uses the hormone or excretes it by the end of the day. So it appears that an early morning dose of DHEA is the way to go.

Why You Should AVOID All Oral Hormone Preparations

There are many ways to "naturally" address homeopathic hormone replacement but one of the most common mistakes is to use oral hormones.

But if you swallow steroid hormones you seriously distort their natural metabolism.

Swallowed hormones encounter potent stomach acids, and the hormones that survive this assault then move to your liver where they will be further broken down.

Your liver screens all molecules that enter your blood stream, passing some onward, modifying or detoxifying others, and rejecting a few.

This routing of orally swallowed hormones is in sharp contrast to the way nature intended them to be distributed to your tissues.

If you swallow hormones, only 10-15 percent will eventually reach the target tissues and you will need to take an oral dose that is 500 percent higher than you need.

Many different metabolites are created in your liver when you swallow a DHEA supplement and any of these can produce unwanted side effects.

So if you or anyone you know currently use an oral DHEA supplement or any other oral hormone, I encourage you to strongly consider phasing them out and instead using a DHEA cream preparation that you administer on your skin daily.

Final Thoughts on DHEA

Is DHEA the "fountain of youth" it was touted to be in the 1990's? Perhaps it is, but with an asterisk.

Your body is designed to maintain a delicate hormonal balance that usually self-regulates naturally according to your age and the stresses you face in life.

Progressively increasing numbers of people today complain of a lack of energy, unexplained weight gain, poor mood, depression and insomnia. Some of the contributing factors can be a poor diet, lack of exercise, stress that goes unchecked and adrenal glands functioning sub-optimally.

Prolonged adrenal imbalance can actually be the cause of many of the symptoms associated with a lack of optimal health -- weight gain, depression and a lack of energy that you just can't seem to shake no matter what other healthy changes you make to your lifestyle

And if you're not getting enough quality sleep (another symptom of DHEA imbalance) all of the other healthy changes you make to your lifestyle will not produce dividends you can feel.

So if you are under constant stress, or constantly feel tired, weak, depressed or have a low sex drive, please find call the office and we’ll get you started on the DHEA creams. They easy to use and you’ll definitely notice a change.

Too many people suffer unnecessarily from high stress and low DHEA production, so make sure you are not one of these people.

Here’s something else to think about.

When the skin is no longer being adequately supplied with DHEA, it can become dry, dull, sallow and wrinkled. This reduced DHEA level is one of the principal causes of those ugly brown aging spots as well as the general lack of elasticity in the skin.

In short, the skin loses that young, smooth, healthylook and glow you once enjoyed.

It has been scientifically demonstrated that the topical application of our Anti Aging Cream with DHEA helps inreversing the evidences aging and overexposure to the sun.

Both men and women who have applied our moisturizing cream to both face and hands have reportedthe rapid fading of brown spots, the reductionand elimination of wrinkles,and generallysofter, younger looking skin.

NOTE: DHEA is the most important hormone present in the skin. Topical application to the skin helps replenish this vital hormone and stimulate theskin’s immune system. DHEA has been shownto also aid in the prevention of and slowingdown of the growth of skin cancers. It is anestablished treatment for psoriasis, eczema,seborrhea, and dermatitis. It relieves dry skinand is very effective in the treatment of burns of all types.

This DHEAfrom West Coast Anti Aging should be applied continuously for 20 days before expecting improvements to become obvious. Even more dramatic results are generally seen after treatment for thirty days. Since there is an accumulative effect, continued use produces better results. If treatment is then discontinued, some of the beneficial results may diminish and age and brown spots will gradually reappear.

This cream should be applieddaily to the face, hand and neck and any otherparts of the body as desired. For most dramatic results, it is suggested that this DHEA cream be applied in the morning.

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Improvement in Vision in a Patient with Diabetic Retinopathy Following Network Spinal Analysis Care

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 06:10:03 MST

Improvement in Vision in a Patient with Diabetic Retinopathy Following Network Spinal Analysis Care

Marina Irastorza LMT, DCBio, Daniel Knowles DCBio,Richelle KnowlesDCBio

Annals ofVertebral Subluxation Research ~ February 16, 2012 ~ Pages25-30

Abstract

Objective:To describe the reorganization and reduction of intraocular pressure (IOP) in a chiropractic patient with diabetic retinopathy and concurrent loss of vision undergoing Network Spinal Analysis (NSA) care.

Clinical Features:A 46-year-old male with type I insulin dependent diabetes presented for chiropractic care. His complaints included numbness in both arms and fingers of the left hand, and diabetic retinopathy with total loss of vision for the past five years.

Intervention and Outcomes:The patient received NSA care 221 times over three years. After 8 months of care, he reported seeing shapes and colors through his left eye only for the first time in 5 years. He also reported a drop in intraocular pressure from an initial 50 mm Hg down to 18 mm Hg.

Conclusion:The patient in this case experienced improved intraocular pressure and vision following Network Spinal Analysis care. More research is warranted to better understand this link between Network Spinal Analysis care, chiropractic and the diabetic patient.

http://vertebralsubluxationresearch.health.officelive.com/2012_1109_diabetic.aspx

Menopause Women PMS

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 05:39:36 MST

Menopause, Women, & (PMS)

The human body is an amazingly complex mechanism. The more one studies it, the more one realizes how complex it is.

Yet, all this complexity is—for the most part—controlled seamlessly with little conscious effort. Much of this control is due to the actions of minute amounts of substances called hormones.

Hormones are the chemical messengers of the body. They circulate through the body in the bloodstream producing powerful effects on virtually every organ they encounter.

Their effects are profound and range from regulating body temperature and blood chemistry to generating sexual desire. Thus, hormones control virtually every aspect of your existence.

As we all know, hormone levels change as a woman ages. Most women expect it around the age of fifty. But hormone levels also vary due to influences aside from aging. What many women do not know is that nutrition and overall health play an important role—and poor nutrition can accelerate hormonal imbalances and the onset of menopause.

Aside from normal aging, which is beyond our control, lifestyle issues also cause hormone imbalances. For example, since fat tissue produces and stores estrogens, a sedentary or overweight woman can have excessive estrogen and low testosterone, resulting in PMS symptoms and low sexual drive. Alcohol consumption, smoking, and other environmental factors can also exacerbate age-related hormone imbalances.

Contrary to the message conveyed by the mass media, menopause really begins somewhere in a woman’s thirties as her hormone levels begin to decline. When her levels are low enough, symptoms appear, and she is said to be pre-menopausal or peri-menopausal. Typically, around the age of fifty, her menstrual period ceases, and she is said to be in menopause.

The important thing to understand here is that menopause is not something that comes on like an attack of the flu, but a process that begins in a woman’s thirties, continues throughout life, and is marked by a visible physical change—the cessation of the menstrual flow—at around fifty years old. Many women, from their late twenties on, should monitor their hormone levels and correct imbalances long before they reach their fifties and menopause. This allows them to benefit from long-term hormone balance, which can help reduce the physical effects of aging.

Many women start to feel hormonal problems in their thirties, — and sometimes even in their late twenties. These problems usually occur around a woman’s menstrual period. They can cause irritability, nervousness, excessive anxiety, or headaches just before or after the menstrual flow, and sometimes are associated with severe menstrual cramps or bleeding.

Such symptoms are typically known as PMS. As a woman’s age nears fifty, symptoms typically become more pronounced, and may include any of those mentioned above, as well as hot flashes, night sweats, and sleep disturbances. The latter ones mentioned are usually associated with the onset of menopause. Get all natural hormone crèmes at the front desk and start changing the way you feel.

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Natural Hormone DHEA Can Help Counteract Diabetes

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 05:33:54 MST

Natural Hormone DHEA Can Help Counteract Diabetes

’m not sure if you’ve started using the natural hormone DHEA from West Coast yet, but if you haven’t, make sure you read this short article. Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), is a natural hormone in the body, and has helped rebalance the set of chemical reactions that falls out of balance due to chronic high blood sugar in type 2 diabetics, shows a new study.

In explaining the reasons for the study, researchers noted that diabetics have too much sugar (glucose) in the blood, which sets off a “chain reaction” that damages many different types of cells in the body.

The first imbalance occurs when oxidants overwhelm antioxidants, causing what doctors call oxidative stress. The second imbalance occurs when excess glucose molecules circulating in the blood attach to and scar cell proteins, which doctors call glycation.

Both imbalances lead to the complications in advanced diabetes, including nerve damage, blindness and cardiovascular disease. Scientists noted that DHEA had prevented oxidative stress in other studies and wanted to test its effect in diabetes.

So here’s what happened. Researchers recruited 20 male and female type 2 diabetics who used DHEA everyday or a placebo for 12 weeks. Doctors also recruited 20 healthy participants—with normal glucose levels—matching the age and sex of the diabetics, and compared oxidative stress and glycation levels at the start of the study, which were significantly higher in the diabetics.

At the end of the study, diabetics who had used DHEA had 50% less oxidative stress and glycation and significantly more antioxidants in the blood, including 35% more glutathione and 76% more vitamin E. The placebo group had NO significant changes. Study authors concluded that DHEA might prevent cell damage from high blood sugar and counteract the complications in type 2 diabetes, so it’s a no brainer to use natural DHEA as a preventative. If you want to grab a container of natural DHEA, ask for it at the front desk. DHEA for men is in the Testosterone/DHEA crème, for women it is in the Youth Enhancement crème. Thanks again for taking the time to help yourself.

Reference: Diabetes Care: 2007, Vol. 30, No. 7, 2922-7.

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Want Relief From Night Sweats Hot Flashes Insomnia Bloating

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 05:20:28 MST

Want Relief From Night Sweats, Hot Flashes, Insomnia, & Bloating?

Dr. John R. Lee. M.D. was a family doctor in Northern California when, in the early 1970s, he began seeing a lot of menopausal women with health complaints who weren't able to use estrogen because of a high cancer risk, heart disease, or diabetes.

About that time he attended a lecture by Raymond Peat, Ph.D. who claimed that estrogen was the wrong hormone to be giving menopausal women, and that what they really needed was progesterone.

Dr. Lee took a list of Dr. Peat's references and checked them out, and sure enough, it looked like Dr. Peat was right.

Once he started treating his own patients with natural progesterone cream, he saw results immediately. Natural progesterone cream is much safer than those synthetic alternatives created by pharmaceutical companies. These drug companies can not produce progesterone cream because of one thing. A natural molecule cannot be patented, so there is absolutely no money in this type of cream.

Natural replacement of this vital hormone ‘aids’ in balancing the body and reducing menopausal symptoms.

What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause

In Dr. Lee's book "What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause", he talks about the roles that hormones fill in your body. It is possible to feel good again, and he talks about how a body out of balance can't provide the healing that is vital to restoring a person’s health.

Dr. Lee talks about how his patients began to feel relief from night sweats, hot flashes, insomnia, bloating and many other symptoms. It wasn't long before his research began to turn him in another direction...

What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About PRE-Menopause

Dr. Lee began to see a lot of women between the ages of thirty to fifty, who were suffering hormonal imbalance with a long list of symptoms, including:

Extreme PMS

FIBROIDS

Fibrocystic breasts

WEIGHT GAIN

Fatigue

ENDOMETRIOSIS

Irregular or heavy periods

INFERTILITY

Miscarriage

Dr. Lee noted that when this group of women tried natural progesterone cream, it worked wonderfully to alleviate their symptoms. Dr. Lee began to collect stacks of mail from women who had avoided hysterectomy, lost weight, had fibroids shrink, found relief from PMS, and had finally been able to conceive after years of trying. Get started with this natural cream today. Just stop by the front desk and ask for your jar of West Coast’s Progesterone. It will change the way you feel and act forever. All you have to do is start using it as soon as you get home. It works fast and it even softens your skin. Doesn’t get any better than that.

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A Touch is Worth a Thousand Words

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 05:47:42 MST

A Touch is Worth a Thousand Words

By Amanda Castleman

TCL’s series on the five senses wraps up by touching on the final sense.

The rasp of a cat’s tongue; the eyelash flutter of a “butterfly” kiss; the pinch and burn of an ice cream headache.

Touch is one of our most primitive and universal senses. All the way back to the first multicellular life forms—about 2.1 billion years ago—almost all animals have relied on their somatosensory (body-sensing) systems to navigate, find food and evaluate their surroundings.

Pain, pressure and temperature all register as “touch.” So do visceral feelings, such as aches and nausea, and kinesthetic senses, like proprioception, the spatial awareness of our bodies.

Receptors and nerve endings pipe all this data to the somatosensory cortex, the brain’s busiest hub of direct input. Humans concentrate about 90 percent of this area’s processing power on signals from the hands and face. The result: fine motor control that ranks right up there with opposable thumbs as a competitive evolutionary advantage. It allows us to bait hooks, conduct open-heart surgery and mouse-click to escape endless coverage of the Kardashians.

Our sense of touch also helps us balance, carry containers of water and pick up babies without crushing them. It can be powerful (drop that scalding pot!),subtle enough to distinguish a Braille “A” from a “B” or encourage us into the shade before a sunburn blooms.

But touch goes beyond being the world’s best onboard navigation system. It’s the first language we learn and remains our richest form of expressing emotion. It can comfort, reduce stress, kindle romance, create camaraderie and even communicate feelings with 78 percent accuracy between strangers, according to a study by DePauw University, which tested the ability to convey specific emotions, like anger, sympathy or love, through five seconds of touch.

The Power of Touch

Newborns awaken first to tactile input, before their other senses come fully online. Carole M. Pasahow, Ph.D., clinical director for New Jersey’s Accredited Center for Psychological Counseling, explains: “A mother’s touch especially helps babies feel safe and comfortable when they do not understand their world very well.”

We return to that calming technique throughout life, from swaddling to hugging loved ones who are upset. Brigham Young University recently proved that couples can lower tension and blood pressure by massaging each other.

“Touch is one of our most basic and primal sources of connection,” explains Daniel Knowles, a chiropractor at the Network Family Wellness Center in Boulder, Colo. “Skin forms the body’s largest organ, accounting for approximately 16 percent of a person’s weight.

“Its extensive network of nerves feeds information constantly to the brain concerning our surroundings. Unfortunately, in the United States people are living in a chronic, overwhelming fight-or-flight mode. Touch can effortlessly bring us out of this state of distress.”

That’s a lesson that Temple Grandin understood instinctively as an autistic teenager. Even though her autism prevented her from being able to tolerate human touch, she somehow innately knew that when she needed consolation or calming, she needed the sensation of touch in the form of pressure. Grandin invented a “squeeze machine” that, in essence, provided her with a mechanical hug. Later in her life, when she observed cattle being moved through stockyards, she recognized their need for calming and felt her invention could help them. Grandin went on to use her invention to revolutionize stockyard design, making it more thoughtful and humane. Now a best-selling author, the professor of animal science was honored as one ofTimemagazine’s most 100 influential people of 2010. That same year, Claire Danes played her in HBO’s semi-biographical film “Temple Grandin,” which won five Emmys.

From our fascination with Grandin to the yoga boom and insurance-covered acupuncture, we’re instinctively seeking more and more ways to stay in tune with touch, as our digital culture erodes distance.

Comfort, Intimacy and Team Spirit

Touch can also relieve depression and loneliness. Sweden’s Karolinska Institute discovered that weekly massage consoled bereaved people, even two months after the study ended. In fact, any contact—a hug or clasped hand—can comfort in a crisis, explains researcher Berit Seiger Cronfalk.

Cancer patient Brenda Jones had affectionate cats and a “wonderful, huge” family to help her through treatments three years ago. Still, her anger spin-cycled over the bleak, brusque hospital—specifically its institutional gowns. So, she learned to sew and whipped up a warm, soft flannel kimono in splashy colors. About 500 garments later, Jones runs the non-profit Hugwraps with help from local New Jersey students.

She armors patients in their favorite colors and patterns, and fabric as soft as an embrace. “You can’t take anyone with you into treatments,” the survivor explains. “But it’s like I’m there holding their hands.”

And a gesture that simple can go a long way. Friendly touch increases trust and social connections, according to UC Berkeley research into NBA teams. All those high-fives, chest-bumps and butt slaps really do boost performance. Another study revealed that students volunteer in class nearly twice as often after a supportive back pat.

Some experts suggest that’s because we’re hard-wired to share problem solving across many brains. Even a light, casual touch reminds us of that support network. It also releases the feel-good hormone oxytocin, which improves communication and bonding.

Touch –From Medical To Mystical

For millennia, humans have manipulated their somatosensory systems not only to grow closer, but also to feel better. On the most basic level, even young children instinctively clutch a body part that has been bumped or scraped. And it turns out that cuddling an “owie” really does relieve discomfort, according to scientists at the University College London. The contact resets the brain’s map of the body and can wipe away 64 percent of the pain.

“Healing touch practices are found in all known cultures around the globe,” says Lynn Temenski, Chair of Asian Holistic Health and Massage Therapy at New York’s Pacific College of Oriental Medicine. Western massage, for example, kneads muscles to improve blood circulation, aiding waste removal and delivery of nutrients and oxygen. Eastern practices like Shiatsu seek to balance energy flow.

A desire to care for others through touch led Michael Hollerbach first into a massage career, and now into the chiropractic program at Life University, so he could help more people. “The principles of Chiropractic made sense to me: just move the bone off of the nerve and let the body heal itself—simple,” he says.

Such ideas stretch all the way back to the profession’s charismatic and controversial founder D.D. Palmer, D.C., who gave the first documented adjustment in 1895. He adjusted Harvey Lillard’s misaligned vertebrae into place and is credited with restoring his hearing. Palmer elaborated this into a discipline that improved health through proper spinal alignment.

He saw this calling as mystical, as well as medical, much like his son B.J. Palmer, D.C., who wrote, “We chiropractors work with the subtle substance of the soul. We release the prisoned impulses, a tiny rivulet of force, that emanates from the mind and flows over the nerves to the cells and stirs them to life.

“You ask ‘Can chiropractic cure appendicitis or the flu?’ Have you more faith in a knife or a spoonful of medicine than in the power that animates the living world?”

Healing Hands Practitioners are still putting the Palmers’ vitalistic philosophies into action today with adjustments and energetic healing. For Deedra Farmer—another Life University chiropractic student—that began with a massage therapy license, then Craniosacral training at The Upledger Institute. “Over my 14-year career, my sense of touch has become amazingly sensitive and very intuitive,” she says.

“There is definitely energy transference between myself and my patients when my hands are touching them. Plus, the comfort of my touch enhances the overall soothing and healing aspect.”

She prefers the directness of Craniosacral to the more hands-off tradition of Reiki, a spiritual practice developed by Mikao Usui, a Japanese Buddhist, in 1922. Reiki practitionersbelieve they direct universal energy through their palms, promoting self-healing and a state of equilibrium. Depending on the tradition, this can involve light, precise touch or hovering the hands a few centimeters from the recipient’s body for 3–5 minutes. In Western practice, the positions often align with the chakras and meridian energy lines of Eastern traditions.

Knowles points out, “With Reiki, there is an intention of an energy exchange or a therapeutic result.” He is drawn instead to Chiropractic and Network Spinal Analysis, which are “at their core, philosophical and clinical interactions.”

Network, which began with New York’s Donald Epstein, D.C.,in 1982, blends various chiropractic techniques. Through light touch, network aspires to release large amounts of spinal tension, which proponents say can have life-changing results. In a study at the University of California, Irvine, 76 percent of patients reported improvements in their physical, emotional and mental health, as well as stress response and life enjoyment.

“Reorganizational healing seeks to advance the state of the patient, to help them develop internal tools and strategies to self-heal, realign and self-correct,” Knowles says. “Adjustments apply forces to the spine and its surrounding tissues with the intention of removing interference between brain and body, between matter and innate intelligence. It’s about reconnecting man the physical with man the spiritual.”

From a handshake to a relaxing sauna or spinal fine-tuning, harnessing the powers of touch can be done in many ways. So reach out and grab hold of the ones that suit you best. Savor that silky gelato. Roll down that grassy slope. Rub your thumb across that river-smoothed pebble you carry in your pocket.

You may find such indulgences open a portal to all your senses, including the fiveTCLhas explored in this series, and their unique abilities to heal, delight and bring balance.

This awakening may have profound ripple effects. As Oscar Wilde once put it, “Nothing can cure the soul but the senses.”

Network Family Wellness CenterDanny Knowles D.C. and Richelle Knowles D.C.

1715 15th StreetBoulder, CO 80302(303) 998-1000

Reference:http://www.todayschiropractic.com/Archive/FebruaryMarch2012/ATouchisWorthaThousandWords.aspx

FOR MEN ONLY

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 06:12:29 MST

FOR MEN ONLY? NOT REALLY

Today's I’m going to mostly talk to the men, but even the ladies reading this may want to make sure that they help the man in their lives with this problem. Have you noticed all of the commercials on TV about helping men with "low t"? Low ‘t’ is another way of saying, low testosterone. There's a good reason for this though... You see, there's an epidemic of Low Testosterone in our society that your father and grandfather never battled. In fact, did you know that men as young as in their mid-30's areexperiencing symptoms of "andropause", which is caused by this low ‘t’? In today's society, we are bombarded by pesticides, as well as chemicals such as BPA in canned foods that act as xenoestrogens, wreaking havoc on men's ‘T to E’ ratios. Worse yet, we're also bombarded with cell phone and WIFI radiation all day long which has been shown to decrease T levels. The bottom line is that this is a different world than our grandfathers lived in, and it's waging a war against our ‘T’ levels, causing all sorts of scary feminizing issues in men... and even women, so this is a problem most people are not aware of. Fortunately, there's a lot you can do to FIGHT BACK! For example, did you know that there are some powerful "superfoods" that can help you boost your "T" levels? In fact, they're not even ones you'd normally think of. For example, did you know that CELERY can boost testosterone? Yeah, weird, huh? When you chew celery, testosterone-triggering hormonesandrostenone and androstenol are released. As you munch a stalk of celery - these chemicals send signalsfrom your mouth to your nose and directly stimulate the releaseof testosterone in your body. Want maximum effectiveness? Shove 4-6 stalks of celery into a juicer... take a good strongwhiff... and then slam the whole glass for a SuperfoodTestosterone-Boosting "Shot". (Note: Due to toxins and xenoestrogens in food that's riddled with pesticides - besure to use organic celery) There’s another incredible,easy, and NATURAL tips to increase your testosterone. Use the testosterone crème from West Coast and just rub it on everyday if you don’t want to eat a ton of celery everyday or better yet… do both. Wow, will you see a change.

Network Family Wellness Center

Danny Knowles D.C. and Richelle Knowles D.C.

1715 15th Street

Boulder, CO 80302

(303) 998-1000

www.boulderantiaging.co

Network Family Wellness CenterDanny Knowles D.C. and Richelle Knowles D.C.

1715 15th StreetBoulder, CO 80302(303) 998-1000

www.boulderantiaging.com

Transformational Gate

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:14:20 MST

Donny Epstein's Transformational Gate™ Experience is an educational experiential weekend designed to help you develop lifetime tools for greater self awareness and deepening. Not only will you better refine your Network Wave and other unique strategies associated with NSA and SRI, but you will gain greater mastery of your body-mind's underlying rhythms and gifts.

The Network Wave, when linked to spinal oscillation, enriches spinal learning, evolution of the nervous system and yields wellness benefits in alignment with living a more authentic and joyful life. At the Transformational Gate your energy bound up in tension, conflict, trauma, and a defended "self" can be utilized to create massive change.

At the Transformational Gate, Donny Epstein will share informative and entertaining descriptive presentations of the healing and awakening process associated with NSA and SRI care as well as details about the care you will receive and goals of each Gate session. The Gate process was developed to create an energetic resonant "biomass" where the coherent field creates a group effect enhancing personal progress at a depth and rate beyond that achievable with individual sessions.

REGISTER TODAY for Donny Epstein's Transformational Gate™ and demonstrate your commitment to life and to a greater degree of wholeness and healing for yourself and the world.

Participants from around the globe will be there to share this healing and self awareness weekend that has been enjoyed by more than fifty thousand attendees from six continents. Discover your power to achieve instantaneous transformation and connection to yourself, healing and global community!™

New Antioxidant Scanner Rediefines Wellness Care

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:37:55 MST

Could New Scanner Redefine

Wellness Care?

by Filomena Lorocca, D.C.

T SEEMS, AT SOME TIME IN THE EARLY 90’s,the buzzword throughout the natural healthcare market became antioxidants. Have a cold; grab an antioxidant…. Car is rusting; rub an antioxidant wax on it…. Forgot to pay your bills…take an antioxidant. Sure, a little hyperbole here, but the reality is that oxidative stress (free radicals) has been implicated in the pathogenesis of many human diseases. In fact, the use of antioxidants has been intensively studied, particularly as treatment for stroke, cancer, and even neurodegenerative diseases. At a recent anti-aging conference, Mark Bartlett, Ph. D., suggested that, “Increasing the antioxidant level in one’s body may be one of the most important keys to anti-aging and longevity.”Until recently, the methods availablefor measuring antioxidant levels in humans have consisted of severely flawed mail-in urine testing or expensive blood tests. Well, there was a need for aconvenient, inexpensive method of testing, and now it seems to have arrived. The University of Utah recently developed such a device—the BioPhotonic Scanner. Based on Raman Spectroscopy, the scanner is able to quickly, and non-invasively provide an accurate antioxidant score for patients. The original beta

head of research for over forty years in the Packer labs at the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Packer is no stranger to rigorously evaluating studies. When recently interviewed by CNN Money, Dr. Packer explained, “Everyone should get their antioxidant score and begin increasing their intake of fruits, vegetables and dietary supplements to maintain their optimal score forever.” As the Wellness revolution sweeps the version scanner was ten feet long and took up an entire room. Pharmanex, a natural health company located in Provo, UT, invested around $50 million for the exclusive worldwide marketing rights to the antioxidant scanner. Working closely with the U of U, they were able to get the scanner down to the size of a toaster. Today, the scanner has completed its evolution. It is accurate, fast, very compact and easy to use. With eight global patents on the technology that are good for the next twenty years, Pharmanex has positioned itself as a leader in this market for years to come. This is a useful patient education and monitoring tool, because patients may track the progress of their antioxidant level through time as they take supplements and increase their consumption of raw fruits and vegetables.

Dr. Lester Packer, author of The Antioxidant Miracle, known in some circles as the “Father of Antioxidants” explains, “The Pharmanex antioxidant scanner validates my life’s work.” As 24 The American Chiropractor 􀂊 JULY 2007 nation, at least one Chiropractic College has already caught on to the technology. Parker Seminars incorporated the use of the scanner as part of their CCE Accreditation course in 2007. Parker College’s Research & Development department did a complete review of the science behind the scanner and subsequently incorporated the training into their 2007 curriculum for their students as well. According to Parker College President Dr. Fabrizio Mancini, “This scanner will help all chiropractors maintain a better relationship with their patients through monthly counseling on how fast their body is aging.”

Dr. Filomena Larocca is a family well-care physician in practice for sixteen years. She began her wellness studies at Springfield College in 1984 and graduated Magnum Cumlaude in the spring of 1988 with a BS in Therapeutic Rehabilitation. She continued on to New York Chiropractic in 1990, graduating with honors in August of 1993. www.amchiropractor.com

You Need This Hormone

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:57:58 MST

“You Need This Hormone… At All Costs… Before Leaving Today!”

HGH Levels are extremely HIGH in our youth - keeping the young folk young! That's why HGH is also called the Youth Hormone.

As we get older HGH levels drop off and people all of a sudden, get tired more easily and overweight. HGH affects every living tissue, cell and organ plus on top of all that, it will be directly responsible for stimulating tissue repair, cell replacement, brain function and enzyme function.

HGH levels are extremely high in your youth - keeping us energetic and healthy. By age 60 though, HGH levels decrease 80% from the level at age 20. That’s a huge difference!

For 60 years scientific studies have shown the positive benefits of HGH therapy.

HGH can not only reinvigorate the mind, it can also reverse the attitudes, outlook and expectations associated with aging. It increases concentration and thinking power, has an anti-depressive action on the brain, and can have a profound effect in increasing energy and a sense of well-being.

West Coast Anti-Aging HGH Cream promotes:

Increased energy levels

Improved good cholesterol Level

Improved immune system strength

Equalized your blood pressure

Strengthen your nails and hair

Improve Sexual function and desire

Improve cardiovascular and respiratory functions

Decrease body fat

Reduce wrinkles & age spots

Restore hair condition and color

Improve memory

Elevate mood and improve sleep

Increase cardiac output and stamina

Improve vision

Enhances effects of exercise

Increases bone density

Lowers blood pressure

If you’re tired…of being sick and tired,

and you want results, Pick up your HGH Crème’

today, before leaving the office.

Dr. Daniel Knowles, D.C. 1715 15th St., Boulder, CO 80302 303-998-1000 www.Boulderantiaging.com

Lose 1 Pound a day

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:58:44 MST

Lose ONE-POUND/Day

I don’t know about you, but there are a lot of New Year resolutions made - that are broken by February 1st of every year. Why? Because people for the most part, don’t know how to take the extra weight off safely.

They try and starve themselves, which never works, they try some new way that is bogus and for sure that never works, or they join a gym, and find out there is some sweat equity involved, it takes time to lose weight this way, and then they quit that within a week or so.

That kind of weight loss never works.

That’s why you have this report. I want to help you lose weight the healthy way, without drugs or surgery and we get FAST RESULTS… faster than anything you’ve ever heard about, and at a fraction of the cost of other programs.

This Is A WIN-WIN Program

This fast and safe LOSE A POUND a day program is available for the first time in North America and is used in Europe, as well as in Australia.

There is no program like it, as this program was formulated by a Swiss doctor and has never been replicated before now.

It’s so new, you’ll probably be just one of the few people that know about it because it’s a very exclusive weight loss program that he has shared with just a few doctors all over the world.

New Weight Loss Program No One Has Access To

Like I said, this is a brand new technology, so you’re in for a real treat.

The beauty about this program is that it is customized for your specific needs. If you want to lose 10 pounds or 100 pounds, we have the right program for you.

And the good part is: Exercise is purely optional.

It’s great if you exercise to build more muscle, but you don’t have to. No kidding. We have people right now that have lost over 50 pounds without ever doing one push up or going to a gym.

When you come to the office for our weight loss program, we’ll show you a video, and then you decide whether this program is right for you or not.

Now let’s talk about the current programs out there, such as the different diets, such as the cabbage soup, Atkins, South Beach, Nutri System, Weight Watchers, etc.

There’s a reason why they exist, but you are probably one of the 20%’s that didn’t fit into that mold.

This Program Is For You IF You Want To LOSE Weight

Your Weight Loss program will be customized just for you. It’s composed of several things, each in of itself, and designed to help you lose fat quickly, but combined together it makes this program foolproof.

Don’t forget. This program is customized to your needs.

One thing we will address is your hormone situation. When you were in your 20’s, your hormones were sky high, and you could eat “pizza and hamburgers” on a daily basis and not gain a pound.

Your Hormones Are Going In The Dumpster Every Year

Research shows that hormones will decrease by 1-3% per year after the age of 30 and will be less then 50% of what you used to have - by the age of 50.

We have a way to help you maintain your muscle and help you lose fat. Remember maintaining muscle tone is crucial in any weight loss program, and most diets FAIL because people lose muscle and they need more muscle to speed up the metabolism so they don’t continue gaining weight.

Now if you’re talking about weight loss, you’ve probably never heard about natural hormones when you’re talking about losing weight. Most doctors don’t ever say anything because they don’t know this secret.

“When I started this program, I didn’t believe it could happen. I started out a skeptic, as I’ve tried a lot of things over the years. I’ve read a lot of books, bought a lot of DVD’s but nothing has worked as fast, or as well as this amazing program. I’ve lost 30 pounds and packed on some muscle, so don’t tell me it can’t be done.” Gale Carney

“Once I got married and had two kids, my weight just kind of came all of a sudden. I didn’t want to look like I did, so I called, and low and behold, it was true. I’ve lost 36 pounds in just a few weeks, and 17 inches, so I’m happy. This has been a Godsend to me and I’m looking forward to another 25 pounds by Christmas.” Elisha B.

“I’ve lost 37 pounds and 14 inches, and I’m looking better than I have in years. People are always asking me, “What are you doing Linda?” I just tell them it’s the dress. I love this program, so keep it up.” Linda H.

In our program we also have a proprietary blend of drops that will help melt the fat away. You won’t find these anywhere else and they work like magic.

We also have a special item in the weight loss program that will help you hydrate your system. It’s something most doctors and weight loss programs never mention or even know anything about, but you’ll be given all the information so you can start using this little hidden secret that day if you choose.

And it doesn’t matter if all you eat are fruits and vegetables, and you’re a vegan, you still end up with lots of toxins in your system. You have toxins in the water, the air you breath and the lotion you put on your skin.

They are everywhere.

The average American consumes about 80,000 different toxins per year and it’s unavoidable.

You can minimize this, and we’ll help you do this with our specialized weight loss program. All you have to do is show up, start the program and we’ll start helping you to “burn off your fat” quickly.

You see the body uses fat cells to protect you from the toxins in your body.

That’s why when we get rid of the toxins that have built up in our system, the body lets go of the fat, because we don’t need it anymore.

You can lose one pound a day so this is a very powerful program when you add in all the other specialized components.

“I lost 43 pounds in 40 days, this is the best thing I have ever done!.” Holly Reed –

I lost 12 lbs in 3 weeks. I have stabilized my weight. I’m wearing clothes I haven’t been able to fit in for years. I have more energy and feel more comfortable in my skin. Cherie -Boulder, CO

Love the diet. Very easy to follow. Never hungry and the food was great. Happy with the results 15lbs! - Dan Boulder, CO

Wow. I have been losing a pound a day. 12 so far. I'm in my size 10 pants I could never fit intoLucinda B.-Boulder, CO

Things are going well, I've already lost 12 lbs in 5 days.K. Boulder, CO

I have lost 18 lbs! The office staff and Drs Danny and Richelle have been of great support and I can't wait for my new wardrobe - Susan Vaughn - Boulder,CO

I lost 17 lbs in 23 days! More importantly I lost inches all over and my face and arms thinned Donelda Curren- Boulder, CO

We also give you something that includes all the amino acids, trace minerals, vitamins, and minerals… that you need… to balance your body’s eco system so it will drop the weight quickly.

Also while you are on this program you will follow a food management plan of minimal carbs, non-starchy vegetables and lots of good protein.

This reason for this is, it’s a comprehensive program.

You can lose a pound a day and not have to STARVE YOURSELF.

You’re going to feel better than you’ve felt in a long time, clothes are going to start fitting better,people are going to start asking you what you’re doing, and your entire self esteem issues will more or less disappear. You’re going to love what you look like when you get in front of the mirror at home.

Now let me make something very clear.

Everyone loses at different rates. For example men lose weight faster than women, younger people lose weight faster than older people, and heavier people seem to lose weight easier than lighter people. But the common factor is that they all lose weight.

If you’re tired of the same old excuses, and you’re tired of spending money on programs that don’t work, and you can’t keep the weight off, you definitely want to investigate this weight loss program because there is not another one like it anywhere. Don’t forget we want to give you the Results You’ve Been Searching for.

And there may be additional things that the doctor recommends in your particular situation after they review your paperwork.

We are glad you are reading this report, as once you get started, this will be an exciting journey back to your ideal weight.

Isn’t it exciting to finally be able to lose those EXTRA pounds and do it quickly, easily, and then keep them off without starving yourself?

Good luck.

CALL-303-586-4934 NOW!

We are located at: Network Family Wellness Center 1715 15th St., Boulder, CO 80302

Theyre all chocolate

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:39:05 MST

Network Family Wellness Center

Drs. Daniel & Richelle Knowles D.C.

1715 15th Street, Boulder, CO 80302

303.998.1000

Network Family Wellness Center

Drs. Daniel & Richelle Knowles D.C.

1715 15th Street, Boulder, CO 80302

303.998.1000

Deep Down They’re All Chocolate

A little while back, I was at the movies with my wife waiting to see a movie. While the previews were on (now called the Pre-Show Entertainment), an m&m’s commercial came on. It was all about a box of candy that was found in a cupboard well after Valentine’s Day. Inside, was a red m&m who stood up, took a deep breath and said “Bathroom” Then it fell over and died. The commercial ended with the phrase, “deep down, they’re all chocolates”

While the meaning of the commercial may be somewhat unclear, we can relate the message in the final sentence to an understanding of just how special each and every one of us truly is.

In the commercial, it says that deep down, all m&m’s are really the same. We in chiropractic also believe that deep down, all people are the same. That is, we are all made of the same goodness and light that is known as Universal Intelligence.

We are also the same in that we live, breathe, heal and grow from above down and inside out, not the other way around. And, by making sure that our nerves are free from any outside interference, our Life Force can flow freely and continue the healing and growth processes.

Many people would say that seeing everyone as the same takes away the uniqueness of an individual. But, we in chiropractic see it differently. By helping our kids understand that everyone Is special because of who we all are deep down inside, they can develop a healthy respect for others as well as an indomitable spirit of self-esteem to take them toward their potential in life.

This kind of belief in self is absolutely critical if we are all to continue to unfold into whatever God has planned for us. It will also help our kids to resist drugs, alcohol and other harmful activities and substances. They will resist not because of will power, but because they know they are too important to damage the vehicle (their bodies) God has given them to carry out their life missions!

Teaching our kids the lessons about how special everyone is and making sure they have a fully functioning nerve system is the core of what visiting your family’s chiropractor is all about. Whenever you see something like the m&m’s commercial that talks about an underlying unity in all things, take a moment to point it out to your kids and help them see just how special they are because of that unity.

Just think of what the world would be like if every person respected everyone else to the point where we all just went about fulfilling our destinies, peacefully and lovingly.

This is the world we are helping create in our office, and we gratefully acknowledge you and your family, and thank you for being such an important part of this wonderful world we all live in.

Drink Healthy Antioxidant Coffee

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:34:41 MST

GANOVIA COFFEE BEST GOURMET BLACK COFFEE

Expertly roasted, Ganovia Coffee offers a taste experience unlike any you’ve ever had. However, it’s more than just coffee. The spectacular aroma is infused with amazing “Super Foods” known to the ancient Chinese for centuries as promoting health and wellness. Its coffee—kicked up a notch!

It has three “healthy” ingredients:

1. Goji Berry

ü high in protein

ü contains high levels of Vitamins A, C, E & B

ü also known as the “Happy Berry”

2. Ganoderma Mushroom

ü used for centuries to promote health and longevity

ü contains hundreds of antioxidants

ü analgesic (pain relieving), anti-inflammatory qualities

ü lowers blood pressure, lowers cholesterol, and blood sugar

3. Cordyceps

ü known as “The Healing Mushroom”

ü used to treat liver, kidney and heart diseases

ü boosts the immune system

ü also reported to have anti-cancer properties

AVAILABLE IN TWO FLAVORS!

FOR ONLY…

$30! 30 servings

Ganovia is not caffeine free because it is Gourmet Coffee, it certainly has less caffeine than most coffee products so many caffeine sensitive folk are able to drink it.

Type of coffee Caffeine: (milligrams)

Ganovia Arabica has 67 mg of caffeine and Classic Black has 75 mg of caffeine

Dunkin’ Donuts, brewed, 16 oz (480 mL) 143-206 mg Generic instant, 8 oz (240 mL) 27-173 mg Generic brewed, 8 oz (240 mL) 95-200 mg Starbucks Vanilla Latte, 16 oz (480 mL) 150 mg

Startling Simple Truths About TESTOSTERONE

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:09:26 MST

Startling Simple Truths About TESTOSTERONE

ging is something that is going to happen to everyone, but here’s what most doctors and people don’t realize when it comes to slowing down the aging process. Aging is always accompanied by reduced levels of hormones required to sustain a higher quality of LIFE. So the hormone I’m going to talk about today is testosterone.

NOTE: As your testosterone levels decline, your RISK of DYING increases MARKEDLY! YES, it’s true. I’m not sure if I’m the first doctor to tell you that, but it’s true.

Some of the diseases, and this is just a partial list, that are strongly linked to a testosterone deficiency are… 1) HEART DISEASE, 2) OSTEOPOROSIS, & 3) MUSCLE WASTING. Since heart disease is the #1 health issue today, don’t you think you might want to think about RAISING your testosterone levels if you can?

You may have thought you were just getting older and everyone loses muscle and gets some diseases, but if that’s what you think, you’re wrong. Some people even just say, “it was my AGE that caused my…..”, and it was to a certain extent, but that’s just because of their declining testosterone levels. Get this…

Most doctors are surprised to learn that MEN with LOW testosterone levels SHOW an INCREASED incidence of ‘prostate cancer’.

Long before LIFE prematurely ends, testosterone deficit can manifest in the form of psychological disturbances such as depression, reduced sexual desire, and a loss of a sense of well being.

If you’re not using West Coast’s Bio Topical Testosterone/DHEA cream, make sure you get started today. They’re completely safe and easy to use. They make you ‘feel’ different.

A pooled analysis of 7, 619 testosterone blood tests uncovered an epidemic of testosterone DEFICITS in males. The encouraging news is that restoring testosterone to youthful ranges can easily be accomplished at a minimal cost with the use of these homeopathic creams from West Coast Bio Topical creams. Get yours at the front desk today. You’ll love it.

Dr. Major, 43256 Sandia Street Dr., Temecula, CA 93376 (487) 400-2711

Network Family Wellness Center

Drs. Daniel & Richelle Knowles D.C.

1715 15th Street, Boulder, CO 80302

303.998.1000

www.boulderantiaging.com

Network Family Wellness CenterDrs. Daniel & Richelle Knowles D.C.1715 15th Street, Boulder, CO 80302303.998.1000www.boulderantiaging.com

HGH

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:06:36 MST

“HGH”

If you want REAL results…. use West Coast HGH…

Most people don’t know about the power of HGH. HGH is a hormone which is related with the growth of a person when they’re young.

The level of this hormone is at its peak during the period of childhood, especially when a child attains his or her puberty, BUT when you start aging - the production of this HGH starts decreasing.

And this aging starts around the age of 30. And no one is immune to this decrease in HGH. An increased level of HGH in your body gives you the positive effects in your body you want to maintain a great looking body. If you want to improve your health and your life take the advantage of HGH cream from West Coast Anti Aging.

This natural HGH product shows the best results I’ve ever seen. If you’re using the HGH creams that are offered at this office, you’ll start increasing your levels of HGH that are associated with the following benefits:

1. Decrease your chances of losing your current height 2. Reverse aging (which is a biggie) 3. Enhanced metabolism of your body (less FAT buildup) 4. Better immune system to fight with infections and diseases (everyone needs this) 5. Improvement in the strength of your muscle. (gain your strength back)

There are some natural products of HGH whose average success ratio is 97%. They are creams which when used encourages your pituitary gland to produce and release more natural HGH. They are also very, very safe. They are made from the natural ingredients, they are homeopathic, so they don't have SIDE effects. You should go for natural ingredients only which will give you the positive result.

Dr. Yenrac Navi, 454 Bedford, Jept, TX 58744 (847) 477-3821

Network Family Wellness Center

Drs. Daniel & Richelle Knowles D.C.

1715 15th Street, Boulder, CO 80302

303.998.1000

www.boulderantiaging.com

Network Family Wellness CenterDrs. Daniel & Richelle Knowles D.C.1715 15th Street, Boulder, CO 80302303.998.1000www.boulderantiaging.com

Natural Progesterone Crme

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:55:25 MST

Natural Progesterone Crème

FOR Women ONLY!

Here’s a BIG QUESTION for you?

Have you experienced any of these symptoms? Migraines, Fatigue, Irritability, Cramping, Anxiety, Mood Swings, Depression, Fat Gain, Water Retention, Foggy Thinking, Breast Tenderness, Fibrocystic Breasts, Irregular Menstrual Periods, Miscarriages, Infertility, Decreased Sex Drive, Dryness, Endometriosis, Bone Loss, Hair Loss, Hot Flashes, Insomnia, Premature Aging, PMS-Menopausal Symptoms-Bone Loss

In industrialized nations, an over abundance of estrogens, stress, environmental pollution, faulty eating habits and decreased nutrients in food, are creating hormone imbalances referred to as estrogen dominance.

Estrogen is routinely fed and/or injected into live stock to fatten them up for market.

Petrochemical companies produce types of environmental pollution that act as estrogen in the human body and this includes yours. Hormone imbalances create an array of symptoms; many associated with PMS, menopausal symptoms, bone loss and adrenal exhaustion. These imbalances are being put in check by the use of natural progesterone.

Progesterone is a hormone produced by your ovaries and adrenal glands. If you do not have ovaries then it’s left up to your over worked adrenal glands. Natural progesterone by West Coast is bio-identical to the progesterone that the human body produces. Today, women are realizing the immediate and long-term benefits of using natural progesterone and estriol crèmes and herbs. Dr. John R. Lee MD, physician and author, writes that natural progesterone creme in applications of 20-30 mg is giving relief to women expressing symptoms of estrogen dominance.

Why doesn’t my medical doctor prescribe natural progesterone? Organized medicine and pharmaceutical manufacturers have an age-old relationship. This is not to imply any evil or corruption. Pharmaceutical companies are interested only in medicines that they may patent for a profit. Just like anything natural, natural progesterone cannot be patented. Doctors are required to prescribe products only from the pharmaceutical manufacturers.

Why a crème? Natural progesterone taken orally is mostly destroyed in the digestion process. TECHNICAL STUFF: Adequate absorption is only accomplished through topical application in the form of a dermal delivery system. Bio Topical crèmes are a non-comedogenic cold processed liposome creme that is free of emulsifiers, isopropyl palmitates, glycerl stearate, octyl palmitate, stearic acid, DEA, triethanolarmine (TEA), dimethicone, cyclomethicone, PEG, alcohols, emulsifying wax, dyes, parabens, colors or mineral oil.

Desired ingredients such as progesterone, estriol and herbal concentrates are used in a cold processed creme, giving a superior consistent absorption rate. West Coast Bio Topical Natural Progesterone Creme is available now. Talk to the doctor about ordering your crèmes now.

Network Family Wellness Center

1715 15th street – Boulder, CO 80302 303.998.1000 www.networkwellnesscenters.com

www.boulderantiaging.com

What is HGH

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:47:07 MST

What is HGH? (Human Growth Hormone)

A lot of people are in the dark when it comes to HGH. Human Growth Hormone (also known and commonly referred to as HGH) is one of the most puzzling hormones in the human body. The waves of inaccurate, incomplete and false information floating around make HGH even more confusing. The fact is Human Growth Hormone is a complex peptide hormone produced 100% naturally in the pituitary gland – (a pea-sized structure at the base of your brain) – and released throughout your lifetime to promote growth, tissue repair and regeneration. Pretty important stuff if you ask me. Don’t forget. HGH is ‘critical’ for tissue repair, muscle growth, healing, brain function, physical and mental health, bone strength, energy and metabolism.

HGH is the most critical hormone responsible for growth in children and teens. As early as our late teens, HGH production slows before dramatically dipping beginning in our 30s. As HGH levels decline, muscle mass decreases and the damages caused by aging accelerate. By increasing HGH levels, muscle mass can be increased and many of the effects of aging can be slowed and even reversed. But how can you do that?

HGH Risks and Side Effects

Synthetic human growth hormone injections made with synthetic HGH are the most talked about HGH treatments in the world despite their dangers and FDA ban. HGH injections are taken by many people as part of an anti-aging or muscle-building regimen.

However, HGH injections are only FDA approved to treat children who struggle to produce enough HGH for growth, for AIDS patients and for adults with HGH deficiency caused by surgery, radiation or other similar medical conditions and can cost thousands of dollars a month. And they still come with ALL the risks.

RISKS of synthetic HGH injections include:

Extreme swelling in your arms and legs

Elevated blood pressure

Moderate to intense muscle, nerve and joint PAIN

Contributes to both diabetes and heart disease

HGH Health and Beauty Benefits

That’s why HGH supplements can be so beneficial. A good HGH creme promotes the natural production and release of HGH with ingredients proven to stimulate the body’s natural HGH production within the pituitary gland. HGH homeopathic cremes give those people looking to build muscle or fight aging a “safe and effective way” to increase HGH production without the side effects of HGH injections. The best HGH creme contains key amino acids directly related to HGH production, are 100% steroid-free, safe and legal and there’s no prescription required. These HGH crèmes have been proven to:

Increase calcium retention to increase bone density

Stimulate the immune system

Reduce excess body fat

Reduce wrinkles and other signs of aging on the skin

Slow the progression of cardiovascular disease

These effective and safe crèmes are available in this office, check with the front desk or www.boulderantiaging.com

Drs Daniel and Richelle Knowles, D.C. 1715 15th St. Boulder, CO 80302

Testosterone

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:42:24 MST

“If you would like to learn the simple and easy way to maintain your muscle mass, have more energy so you can stay up with the 20 year-olds, decrease or maintain your blood pressure and prevent osteoporosis and depression you’d better think about using these amazing crèmes.”

“Testosterone”

I have to tell you, if testosterone is required by your body for a good sex-drive, regulating your body fat, maintaining your muscle mass, letting you have good energy, maintaining your bone density, regulating your blood sugar, your blood pressure and preventing depression, you better start thinking about getting a container of this crème today.

Here’s something most men don’t realize. After you turn 25, your testosterone levels begin declining at an average of 1.25% per year. That doesn’t seem like much, but you’re still probably thinking, “So what”. Well you may want to rethink that right now. Here’s what is happening in your body. This slow decline results in you having ‘fat’ deposits, some sexual organ shrinkage possibly having some type of heart disease, a loss of memory, a loss of your strength and muscle mass plus the chance of a decrease in your libido.

Let me give you the ingredients and the recommended use. [Pay close attention to how you use them because this is how you can achieve maximum change in your body composition. That’s if you really want to make a change.] Ingredients: Active Ingredients: 5% Homeopathic Testosterone in 10x, 30x and 100x potencies, Somatropin (HGH) in 10x, 30x and 100x potencies, IGF-1 30x and Pituitary Extract 30x. Recommended Use: Apply this special cream to dry clean skin (behind your knees, inner arms, upper chest or neck). Apply 1/2 to 1 teaspoon or more first thing in the morning and before bed. Apply cream 30 minutes before exercise or sexual activity. Works best if used twice daily.

Like I said, if you want to maintain your muscle mass, have more energy, possibly decrease or maintain your blood pressure, prevent osteoporosis and depression you’d better think about starting on this Testosterone crème today. If you work out or exercise at all I’d advise you get on the HGH crème as well. They are the dynamic duo to your body.

All I can say is this. Once you use them for awhile, you’re going to start to ‘feel’ the difference. You’re going to be ahead of the game and you’re going to be a different man. It doesn’t get any better than this.

Drs. Daniel and Richelle Knowles, Boulder Colorado 80302 (303) 998 – 1000

www.boulderantiaging.com

Diet and Testosterone

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:33:59 MST

Diet and Testosterone....

Are you searching for ways to boost your testosterone levels naturally? Have you looked at your diet?

The following is a collection of tips from doctors, scientists and fitness experts about a healthy diet for optimum testosterone production, including lots of foods and even fruits that increase testosterone production.

Testosterone is produced by the body and is not found in the food we eat; however, certain foods lead to testosterone production and better blood circulation, which carries the testosterone to the appropriate organ, while other foods should be avoided.

So foods that encourage testosterone production may be called -- for lack of a better term -- testosterone food sources.

Testosterone Food Sources

Include: Zinc: The best source of dietary zinc is meat. The best meat choice is the white meat of chicken. The best fish choice is salmon. For vegetarians, choose peanuts or beans. No fruits that increase testosterone in this category, because plant sources of zinc are harder for the body to use and are not good testosterone food sources.

Vitamin A: essential for the normal function of the reproductive organs. Lots of fruits that increase testosterone in this category: apples, blueberries, cantaloupe, pineapple and citrus fruits, just to name a few. Other food sources of Vitamin A include fish (salmon, again), leafy greens (spinach) and brightly colored vegetables like tomatoes, red peppers and yellow squash.

Hope you like salmon, because other than being an excellent source of Vitamin A and zinc, as well as protein, fish oil is said to keep SHBG (sex hormone binding globulin) levels lower. When testosterone runs into SHBG in the blood stream, it becomes attached to it, and then can't interact with any of the body's cells.

The net effect of testosterone that is attached to SHBG is the same as a lack of testosterone since it is prevented from having any impact on the body. Salmon might be your number one testosterone food source followed closely by oysters which are naturally rich in zinc.

Avoid: The following foods are not testosterone friendly food and drink sources: fried foods, sugar and caffeine over stimulate the adrenals, which produce some testosterone. Over stimulating the adrenals leads to "adrenal exhaustion", means they are not going to produce testosterone or anything else. So a breakfast of hash browns, toast with jelly and coffee with cream and sugar would have pretty much everything in it that you want to AVOID if you are looking for testosterone food sources.

In conclusion, a healthy diet and testosterone production go hand in hand. In the meantime, for breakfast tomorrow have an egg omelet (egg yolk contains cholesterol which testosterone is made from) with tomatoes and red peppers (sources of Vitamin A) and natural orange juice to drink. Follow that up with some alfalfa-sprout toast (alfalfa is said to be a sexual stimulant) and some fresh apples, pineapples or other fruits that increase testosterone and you are sure to have a good start to your day. If you haven’t added the Testosterone Homeopathic Crème yet, get it today. It’s quick and easy to apply and it works.

Drs. Daniel and Richelle Knowles, Boulder Colorado 80302 (303) 998 – 1000

www.boulderantiaging.com

WOMEN How To Control Your Symptoms Naturally

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:19:54 MST

WOMEN: How To Control

Your Symptoms Naturally!

Are there natural remedies available RIGHT NOW to alleviate your symptoms of aging plus help restore hormone balance, even AFTER menopause or hysterectomy? YES!!

This article does not just apply to PMS and over 50 females. It applies to every woman over the age of 35.

To help you feel your best, we encourage the use of natural bioidentical hormones and other natural supplements that help you safely control your symptoms associated with aging (which is anyone over the age of 30) and menopause, hysterectomy, PMS, as well as help with bone loss.

We offer the what we consider the highest quality natural Progesterone Creme, Estriol Creme, HGH creme and Homeopathic Testosterone Crème ever.

We offer these natural products to help your hormone glands tofunction normally, and boost "good estrogen" while lowering the "bad estrogens" so you don’t feel bad, look bad or even act bad.

What is the first hormone I should supplement with?

Dr. Lee, a noted authority on aging and hormones plus other authorities on the subject of hormone balance, have explained that ‘women begin to lose the ability to produce Progesterone much earlier than Estrogen’.

Quite often, by the time a woman reaches 40, her Progesterone levels have dropped low enough to result in her experiencing "Estrogen Dominance" as Dr. Lee refers to it.

Low Progesterone can even occur in young women and can result in: *Migraines, *Fatigue, *Irritability, *Cramping, *Anxiety, *Mood Swings, *Depression, *Fat Gain, *Water Retention, *Foggy Thinking, *Breast Tenderness, *Fibrocystic Breasts, *Irregular Menstrual Periods, *Miscarriages, *Infertility, *Decreased Sex Drive, *Dryness, *Endometriosis, *Bone Loss, *Hair Loss, *Hot Flashes, *Insomnia, *Premature Aging, *PMS, *Menopausal Symptoms and *Bone Loss.

It makes sense to supplement Progesterone if you are experiencing any of these. Quite often, just adding Progesterone creme will restore normal balance and make a world of difference in how you feel.

Drs. Daniel and Richelle Knowles, Boulder Colorado 80302 (303) 998 – 1000

www.boulderantiaging.com

The Age Old Question

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:14:46 MST

The Age-Old Question…

FACT: Your adrenal glands, the glands that sit on top of your kidneys, are responsible for manufacturing DHEA. Actually, the cascade of adrenal hormones starts with cholesterol, from which the brain hormone pregnenolone is made.

Pregnenolone is then transformed into DHEA. And DHEA serves as the raw material from which all other important adrenal hormones--including the sex hormones estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone and the stress hormone cortisol--are synthesized.

DHEA is the most abundant hormone in your body. But production of DHEA peaks at around age 20. From then on, your DHEA level decreases with age. By the time you reach 40, your body makes about half as much DHEA as it used to. By 65, output drops to 10 to 20 percent of optimum; by age 80, it plummets to less than 5 percent of optimum. So do you think you might want a little EXTRA?

Because DHEA has such broad-spectrum effects, declining production makes itself known in every system, every organ, and every tissue of your body. The immune system is especially sensitive to diminishing DHEA output, opening the door not just to viruses, bacteria, and other microbes but also to FREE radicals (the bad guys) and the Pandora's box of degenerative diseases they cause.

If levels of DHEA decline with us ageing, can replacing the hormone reverse aging in humans? Nobody knows for sure. In studies, laboratory animals given DHEA live up to 50 percent longer than normal. A host of studies suggest that the lower a person's level of DHEA, the greater his risk of death from age-related disease. DHEA levels in 242 men between the ages of 50 and 79 were tracked for 12 years in a study by noted hormone researcher Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, M.D., professor and chairperson of the department of preventive medicine at the University of California, San Diego. The study found a close correlation between higher DHEA levels and reduced risk of death from all causes. The men who survived had three times the DHEA levels of the men who died.

Research has pinpointed low DHEA levels as a marker for many degenerative diseases and accelerated aging. The hormone has been implicated as a contributing factor in a host of health problems, including Alzheimer's disease, autoimmune disease and other immunological disorders, cancer, chronic fatigue syndrome, diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol, memory problems, obesity, osteoporosis, and stress disorders.

What's more, the collective indirect evidence from more than 5,000 published studies overwhelmingly supports DHEA's anti-aging role. Scientists now have proof that DHEA:

Enhances immunity

Decreases the risk of heart disease

Defends against some cancers

Improves blood sugar control, decreasing the risk of diabetes

Reverses the age-accelerating effects of the stress hormone cortisol

Prevents and reverses osteoporosis

How could any substance that protects us from virtually every major degenerative disease not protect us from aging as well? You can get your DHEA hormone crèmes at the front desk. Just Ask!

Dr. Smith, 435 Lucky Louise Lane, Sand Point, MT, 48374 (948) 498-4877

Network Family Wellness Center

Drs. Daniel & Richelle Knowles D.C.

1715 15th Street, Boulder, CO 80302

303.998.1000

www.boulderantiaging.com

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Its Just a Normal Part of Aging

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:07:58 MST

"It's Just a Normal Part of Aging..."

"There's nothing you can do about your symptoms, your age, your belly, your energy, or how you feel. You'll just have to learn to live with them..."

The best weapon for fighting this kind of medical incompetence is your coat: When you hear such nonsense, grab it and run.

Instead, I'd like to tell you about...

The 160-year-old Rat, the 400-year-old Caterpillar, and Your 130th Birthday Party

Yes, modern science can actually make certain species live to these ages, at least in 'animal years'-while remaining in great health.

In fact, scientists have gotten a few roundworms past the 500-year mark. Regular Methuselahs! Old worms!

No one, of course, wants to live an extra 40 years in a wheelchair, wheezing and unable to add 2 + 2. But that's not what they're finding in experiments on animals. We're finding we can extend middle age, not old age. We're making it possible to keep playing golf and tennis, not to keep driving ourselves to the proctologist's office.

Just from current trends, your grandchildren will likely have an average life expectancy of 100 years. But that doesn't begin to take into account the incredible advances you'll soon be learning. It's just one of the 9 anti-aging weapons you'll get if you follow the advice below. And here's the biggest one right now...

The Granddaddy of All Hormones

There is wide and growing agreement among both conventional and alternative doctors that one hormone is the golden key-the magic mechanism that runs your biological clock and drives all your body systems like nitro-methane propels a top-fuel dragster 300 MPH in a quarter mile from a dead stop. Can you guess what it is?

It's not melatonin. Take melatonin, you live longer. It's that simple, and many studies have proven it. Yet melatonin is NOT the master key.

It's not DHEA. By volume, it's the main hormone in your body. Yet by age 80, you'll have just 5% of the amount you had at 20. Oops! That's not enough.

What do people with cancer, heart disease, high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes, and Alzheimer's all have in common? Low levels of DHEA in their blood. Still, DHEA is far less of a variable in your longevity than the key hormone below.

It's not testosterone, thymosin, pregnenolone, and other helpful hormones. They all take a back seat to...

HGH

In case you're new to natural medicine, that's Human Growth Hormone, and it's a blockbuster. For power and sheer longevity, nothing even comes close.

In the classic 1990 study (reported in the New England Journal of Medicine), Daniel Rudman, M.D., gave HGH to 21 men between 61 and 81 years old. The average man gained 8.8% in lean muscle (without any extra exercise) and lost 14.4% in fat.

In addition, they had new interest in sex (and with better performance), thicker skin, and lots of other differences. Dr. Rudman summarized the subjects' improvements as equivalent in magnitude to the changes incurred during 10 to 20 years of aging.

One subject said, 'I get up and look in the mirror in the morning, and there's a 35-year-old man staring back at me!'

Sadly, though, some doctors have HGH that costs $10,000 to $30,000 a year for the injections. That’s not what we’re touting here.

50-Something Forever

Yes, with HGH, a comfortable, vigorous life at 120 is now in sight and it’s very affordable. Soon, people will live to be 150 or more...

But how? Aren't the costs too high for ordinary budgets?

It doesn't have to be - not if you avail yourself to the incredible health resource I'm about to introduce you to. There is an effective, yet low-cost solution - a specific solution based on one encouraging medical fact: Your faithful pituitary gland is still making plenty of HGH and will likely continue to do so for the rest of your life.

In 1997, new ground was plowed when a myth-shattering report was presented to the American College for Advancement in Medicine by Drs. James Jamieson and L.E. Dorman.

They announced their findings that the pituitary continues to produce plenty of HGH well into a person's 70s and 80s.

That means we wouldn't need expensive injections if only we could find a way to “coax” all that perfectly good HGH out of its hiding place in the middle of our brains.

You’ve Got It, Now Use It!

In other words, you've likely got plenty of HGH stacked up in your pituitary gland. It's just not being excreted into your bloodstream. By age 65, only 15% to 20% of it gets out (compared to what got out when you were 25).

That Jamieson-Dorman report was a loud sound of opportunity knocking on the minds of lots of medical pioneers. And did they ever answer the door!

In a short time, dozens of formulations hit the market, each promising to make the pituitary ‘cough up’ its hidden store of HGH on a daily basis...

Only one problem: They didn’t all work. In fact, a lot of them don't work, to put it kindly.

But you'll know which ones did, if you keep reading. The best we've found here at the office is a formula sold in the form of a transdermal creme. It was found to exceed the benefits of HGH injection treatments! Without any side effects.

They Lost 10 to 20 Years!

Some doctors who are prescribing the Bio topical formula claim it's 3 to 4 times more effective than human growth hormone itself. And the remarkable thing is that it doesn't contain one molecule of HGH; it's simply a clever blend of proteins, botanical extracts, amino acids, and other pituitary-kicking ingredients.

In the test, all subjects had more energy, more endurance, and more muscle (with less fat) after just a few weeks of daily use. After just 8 weeks, they reported new hair growth, a restoration of former hair color, and improved skin texture, among other things.

Further testing showed reduced LDL cholesterol, sharper vision, improved memory, and better sex. Still with no side effects.

And if you're as skeptical as I am about using things that could mess up your body long term, you'll be happy to know that whereas HGH shots eventually make your pituitary lazy and reduce its output, this formula actually increases your own natural production of HGH.

The HGH formula costs more than a typical supplement, but it is far cheaper than the $1,000 to $2,500 typical monthly cost of HGH injections.

We have arranged for a limited time for our patients to purchase the formula at a discount.

To find out how to take advantage of this exclusive members-only offer, talk to the receptionist and tell her you want to order yours today. www.boulderantiaging.com

These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.

Network Family Wellness Center

Drs. Daniel & Richelle Knowles D.C.

1715 15th Street, Boulder, CO 80302

303.998.1000

www.boulderantiaging.com

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SPECIAL Natural Hormone Therapy HORMONE REPORT

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 06:28:27 MST

SPECIAL

Natural Hormone Therapy

HORMONE REPORT

(For Men & Women Who Do NOT Want To “AGE” Prematurely!)

If You’re A Man Or Woman Who Is Gaining Weight, Tired, Doesn’t Feel Good Or Are Aging Prematurely…

~READ THIS REPORT IMMEDIATELY~

If you want to learn why natural hormone therapy is so important to your health, welfare, the aging process, and your relationships, READ THIS REPORT.

ÓSWH Enterprise Inc.

Dear Friend,

Are you ‘Aging Prematurely’?

Do you feel ‘Tired’ and ‘Sluggish’… a lot more than you used to?

Are you ready to make some changes that will transform your life and how you feel?

Are you tired of running around without any energy?

Do you want to look and feel differently than you have in a long time?

If you answered “YES” to any or all of the questions, you’re reading a report that will change your life and how you feel forever. I’m about to introduce you to something that will change your life and how you feel.

It’s called…

“Natural Hormone Therapy”.

Modern science regards ‘aging’ as a disease. It also regards this aging process that everyone goes through --- as something that is ‘treatable and preventable’. That means you can do something about your aging process and this is something you want to make a note of.

This special one-of-a-kind hormone report will explain to you how to OVERCOME aging and feel like you haven’t felt in ages. If you’re ready to learn how to slow down your ‘AGING’, you’d better READ this entire report. There are some life changing tips you don’t want to miss.

Remember, bio topical hormones are different from the synthetic hormones prescribed by medical doctors. These special homeopathic hormones are NOT like synthetic Premarin, estrogen or steroids, etc. Let me explain something you may not know.

ALL hormones are synthesized in your body using something called … Cholesterol.

Yes, that’s what I said…‘Cholesterol’. That was no typo. It’s the truth.

What most people don’t understand is… if you have a high cholesterol level that can be somewhat of a good thing, if it’s the right type of cholesterol. When you take drugs for high cholesterol levels, it can be a ‘badthing’ for your liver and your health.

With that said, let’s talk about the BIO TOPICAL NATURAL HORMONES.

First of all…

Hormones are “essential” elements in the human body.

Hormones generally function as "messengers". Every hormone in your body needs a certain hormone receptor to hook up with to function correctly in your body. This is similar to a lock-and-key. The lock will only work if you have the right key and these hormones are those KEYS.

When you use these hormones, your hormone receptors work like gangbusters! These special hormone crèmes act directly with your body's built-in receptor mechanism so you give your body the CORRECT KEY for it’s RECEPTORS. It’s almost like you’re getting the KEY that opens up all the locks (receptors) in your body each and every day you use them.

These special bio topical crèmes act on the root cause of your hormonal deficiencies and imbalances. As a man or woman these special hormone crèmes will wake up your built-mechanism to generate more natural hormones. If you do not use your body’s own natural mechanisms, then you will eventually lose them. It’s the proverbial USE IT OR LOSE IT theme …so if you want to remain younger, you have to balance your hormone levels as often as you can.

Now let me say this up front.

This hormone report is NOT about the types of hormones you normally hear about. No it’s all about hormone crèmes that help you become healthier plus slow down the aging process and get rid of some of your hormone related symptoms - without the side effects of pharmaceutical synthetic hormones.

Recent studies have shown that multiple hormone deficiencies compromise your quality of life as you AGE. And by the term AGING… I don’t mean if you’re 65 and retired.

I mean if you’re over 30.

(MALE or FEMALE)

Believe it or not, 30 is the magical number for a very large percentage of the population, and this includes YOU.

“Hi, there are three things I’ve noticed since I started taking the crèmes about a month ago. It’s helped with weight loss, it’s increased my energy so much that I feel like a 30 year old again, and my libido is back to where it was when I was thirty. My wife loves it, so thank you again.”

Dr. Mace Richter, 54 years San Diego, CA.

You may not believe you could have multiple hormone deficiencies, but here’s the secret. You can actually have hormone deficiencies sooner than age 30, but 30 is the AVERAGE age that this AGING, hormone imbalance begins.

Multiple hormone deficiencies can INCREASE the rate of your aging process, so if you want to slow down the aging process, you’re going to have to do something as soon as possible.

That means you don’t have just one hormone deficiency, but most likely many. This is BAD. One hormone deficiency is BAD, and multiples are SUPER bad. That’s why this report needs to be shared with your friends and family.

Bio Topical Hormone Cremes Can Restore Your Youthful Hormone Balance

Yes! Doesn’t matter how old you are or if you’re a male or female, these special hormones will help you. Youthful hormone balance is critical to maintaining health in ALL men and women OVER the age of 30 and you can’t match these bio topical hormone crèmes anywhere, at any price.

So how do you correct your HORMONE IMBALANCE? You have to figure out which hormones are imbalanced and start balancing them today.

WARNING: We are NOT talking about “synthetic hormones” in this report. They are produced by pharmaceutical companies. These are hormones like Premarin. It’s a synthetic estrogen and is known to cause cancer. I’m also not talking about steroids… used by athletes.

“I am going through menopause and have been suffering from cramps and terrible night sweats. Since using the natural hormone crèmes, my night sweats completely stopped. I used to be soaking wet after a night’s sleep and now I am back to normal again. My doctor wanted to put me on synthetic hormones before but I always declined because I knew about the side effects. These natural bio topical hormones are exactly what I needed.”

Alice Werro, 53 years

Now before we go over the major hormones, one by one, let me share something with you about something else.

Drinking beer or drinking alcohol affects YOUR hormone levels, whether you’re a man or a woman.

Researchers found that beer and other alcoholic drinks LOWER your testosterone levels, which of course - makes a MAN, less manly. And let’s not forget, women have testosterone as an important hormone also, just not as much as men.

When you decrease testosterone in a human, it causes an accumulation of…

BODY FAT

NOT a Good Thing! So drinking beer can cause ‘body fat’ to store in a womanly fashion… in men. This is especially true in their hips and thighs! I am a man, so if you’re a man reading this report or if you’re a woman and you’re married to a man, you might want to pay attention to what I’m telling you about alcohol and testosterone.

The results are in. All types of alcoholic drinks raise the person’s estrogen levels. In addition to this, alcohol decreases FREE testosterone levels and in a male … this causes a number of problems.

THE HORMONES WE TALK ABOUT IN THIS REPORT ARE LIKE THE ONES NATURALLY OCCURING IN YOUR BODY AND THEY ARE ADMINISTERED IN CRÈME LYPOSOMAL FASHION, WITH NO SHOTS OR TAKING OF PILLS.

“When Ifirst began the Anti-Aging crème regimen I was hopingfor amiracle. The results came faster and evenbetter than my expectations. Within9 days of starting your program, I noticed a small changein my skin texture, especially on my hands. On day 21 of your program the skin on my arms and legs had become noticeably smoother andmore supple.

On day 30,my face seemedto have regained elasticity anda youthful glow.My friends noticed a change immediately, and I found people knewwereapproaching me, asking if I had been onvacation, perhaps to a spa, saying I looked well rested and vibrant.

And on top of that my energy is through the roof, I am eternally grateful.”

CathyKollinzas, age 58

Now let’s go over the main hormones so you have a better understanding of what’s going on and why they affect your body in the way that they do.

Testosterone?

This is a main hormone for men.

Testosterone is a hormone produced by both men and women, though males produce much more of it than females when they’re younger. This hormone is essential for the production of sperm and sexual arousal so it’s really important to people that have E.D., which is known as erectile dysfunction.

“I’m energized all day long. I have less fat on my body and I can’t believe the difference in my work out routines thanks to West Coasts Bio Topical hormone crèmes. I call them my secret crèmes because of how they work on my libido. There is nothing like them. I’ve looked all over the world, and I’ve never found anything that even comes close to these special crèmes.”

Rolly Spirig, 47 years, Switzerland

As a man gets older his testosterone level will drop automatically and he will be less interested in sex than he was in his prime. Most men attribute this to their aging, and in a sense - they are 100% correct. That’s why a low testosterone level can also cause what doctors call erectile dysfunction (ED) or impotence.

Forcing drugs into a man is not the right way to handle this type of sexual problem. If you’re hormone deficient, the best way to correct this is by actually fixing the problem. You do this by using a hormone crème that helps to RESTORE your ‘normal’ testosterone level. Balance that, and everything changes.

Decreased levels of testosterone have an adverse effect on your brain and emotions too. Some men can experience symptoms such as: irritability, aggression and lack of enthusiasm about anything. Not to mention the abdominal weight gain (fat belly in men).

How Do You Fix A Problem Like That?

According to the FDA, MILLIONS of American men currently suffer from the problem of low testosterone.

That’s millions!

So getting something done about this condition, as soon as possible, is important. If you, your spouse or a loved one are concerned about the correlation between a low level of testosterone and their unhealthy sex life, do something about it today.

I know men who don’t have a STRONG desire for sex and they just consider it a natural part of aging or the lack of desire for their mate, when in reality --- it’s because of a hidden hormonal imbalance that can be corrected with bio topical hormone cremes.

Research also shows that by age 60, men typically produce 60% LESS testosterone than they did when they were 20. That’s huge when you’re talking about hormone levels.

Q. Have you ever thought about hormones having anything to do with a healthy heart?

HOW TO MAINTAIN A HEALTHY HEART

Normal testosterone has also been associated with maintaining a “healthy” cardiovascular system, so it’s not just about your libido. There are other hormones that are important as well, like thyroid and cortisol, which are not a topic of this report, but they should be noted.

Now here’s another little tidbit about hormones that may surprise you. Whether you know this or not, hormones are predictors of heart failure. Yes, heart failure!

Numerous studies have shown the critical need for “hormone balance” to assure that people who use them regularly, have the best years in their golden years so they can maintain independence as long as possible.

That’s pretty important from an economical view point because who wants their parents to spend all their money on a nursing home of assisted living?

I know I certainly don’t. That’s why this report was written. It tells you what you need and how to take care of your hormone problems, simply and easily.

If you think you have a low testosterone level, (in other words, you’re over 30) the first thing you should do is ask the doctor who gave you this report which hormone crème(s) you need.

If you want to restore your energy and youth and be a giant with sex, you’d better think about using these crèmes on a consistent basis from here on out.

If you think you have LOW testosterone, don't suffer. You don’t have to.

If you think you’re normal, you should be using these hormone crèmes if you’re OVER 30. It’s just a good practice to be safe and these special bio topical crèmes you are… SAFE.

Get on these specialized all natural hormone crèmes today.

As a side note, symptoms of LOW testosterone include: ‘fatigue’, loss of lean muscle mass, a greater risk of osteoporosis and cardiovascular disease, increased abdominal fat and a lower libido. These are just a few of the things that can happen to you if you’re a male, so if you’re suffering from any of these or you want to avoid suffering from these and other symptoms, get your bio topical crèmes immediately.

Progesterone

What does Progesterone do for women? It’s responsible for ovulation and menstruation among other things. When this particular hormone is NOT balanced, you have symptoms like:

insomnia,

foggy thinking,

mood changes,

joint and muscle pain, and

weight gain.

How many women complain about weight gain, after having a child? Lots of them! Some are able to get rid of the extra fat accumulation while others never seem to recover.

If you’re a female and you want to make a difference in your life, get started on these natural bio topical hormones today. Also, women with hormonal deficiencies are likely to become affected by osteoporosis.

Women with two or three deficiencies have a very high likelihood of being ‘frail”. Being frail is not good. I am not going to go into detail in this report, but women who are deficient in more than one hormone --- had almost a 3 times greater risk of being “frail” …than women who were NOT hormonally deficient.

Why is frailty so important to you? Because women… diagnosed as ‘frail’ lose the ability to care for themselves and live ‘independently’. They usually end up in a nursing home.

DHEA

Now let’s talk about DHEA. (Dehydroepiandrosterone) Dehydroepiandrosterone is a big word, so let’s just use the initials… DHEA.

DHEA is your body’s most abundant circulating hormone. Research has shown that DHEA production “peaks” by age 25 and drops dramatically each year thereafter.

Your Hormones PEAK by Age 25?

Yes they peak.

By age 70, research shows most people’s DHEA levels have declined by over ‘80%’, leading to hormonal imbalances that can affect their quality of life.

Most people would just tell you that it’s their age that is causing their symptoms and it is and it isn’t. If they are on a quality hormonal crème, they won’t have that big DHEA drop.

These kinds of hormonal imbalances also occur with the other critical hormones in our aging bodies such hormones as: Testosterone, HGH, and Progesterone.

“If you’re interested in a LARGE, BIGGER than LIFE LIDIDO, you have to use these bio topical hormones from West Coast. I’m a big believer in taking care of your body and I always try to give my body the best nutrients. These crèmes have been phenomenal for me. My skin feels smooth and soft, I even have women tell me that my skin feels like a twenty year old, and my skin isn’t all dried out like their husbands. I have more energy than I did when I was 30 and I’m getting ready to start training to bench press 350 pounds, which I’ve never been able to do before. If you want to make real changes in your life, and in your libido, you have to use these crèmes. They make a difference for me, even though I’m over 60. Dr. Carney, CA

Thousands of studies have been published showing how DHEA may help to retard the effects of aging and promote longevity.

Look at DHEA’s benefits.

DHEA can increase your testosterone levels, restore your muscle mass, improve your body fat ratio, improve your memory, and boost your immune system. It’s also useful in combating auto-immune disorders, obesity, senile dementia, osteoporosis, chronic fatigue syndrome, and depression so it’s a hormone you have to use.

Here’s the cool thing. DHEA even promotes flexibility in your body and raises your stamina and endurance levels. That’s great for anyone that wants to stay young if you know what I mean.

DHEA is also the hormone that helps you reach and keep your ideal weight too. How many people in America need that right now? This hormone tells your brain when you've had enough to eat, and inhibits the conversion of glucose to fat, so it’s one you want to use for the rest of your life if you want to stay slimmer.

When your body is low on DHEA, FAT piles on overnight, whenever you’re eating carbohydrates,… since there is nothing to inhibit the conversion of glucose to fat.

DHEA also protects you against arteriosclerosis by lowering your cholesterol and insulin levels. This mechanism helps keep you SAFE from diabetes. This is another hormone that keeps your immune system strong, helping you to prevent dis-ease. It also protects your brain from Parkinson's and Alzheimer's by protecting your neurons.

Oral supplementation can be used, but most of the hormone is lost in your liver, hence the advantage of using liposomal crèmes by West Coast Bio Topicals. This is the preferred brand.

HGH

Another very important hormone you need to know about is Human Growth Hormone or HGH.

This hormone is without a doubt, the Fountain of Youth hormone.

This is the hormone that everyone over the age of 30 should be using --- on a regular basis. After childhood, HGH levels peak and then drop throughout the rest of your life. In fact after age 30 your hormone levels are going down like ‘lead balloons’. You just don’t know it until you start to AGE.

Without HGH in your body in sufficient amounts, AGE begins to look like it will absorb every ounce of resilience from you. If you look at your kids, children advancing to adolescence have the highest levels of HGH. So who has the most resilient energy, day in and day out?

They do!

Adults who take this amazing Bio Topical HGH crème say they feel younger, act more sociable and have a greater desire to be more active in their everyday lives.

Here’s a key point about HGH you don’t want to miss.

The hormone, we call HGH impacts EVERY CELL in your body as the ‘master hormone; HGH is what makes us grow. This is probably why people go “gaga” for HGH and have such outstanding results so quickly.

After age 30, HGH decreases with AGE’

SO from that point forward …

you are aging prematurely.

1/3rd of the people tested, over 50 years of age, showed abnormal low levels of HGH.

That’s over 1/3rd of them. That is a lot of people that need this information.

So what does HGH do for you exactly?

It helps in tissue repair,

It helps cell re-growth,

It helps your healing capacity,

It helps your upkeep and health of your vital organs,

It helps your brain and memory function,

It helps with your enzyme production, and

Revitalization of your hair, nails, and skin - so they don’t diminish.

This means you’re going to experience all kinds of changes from hair loss to weight gain to brittle nails if your hormone levels are LOW.

When we age, decreasing growth hormone (HGH) levels go hand-in-hand with: stress, malnutrition, and lack of exercise.

FACT: By the age of 80, almost ALL of your HGH will be gone!

Get Your Hormones - under control - to prevent dying at a younger age!

Pay attention to what you’ve read in this report. You may not think it’s going to happen to you, but the first indication of a heart problem is DEATH in 40% of heart attacks, so you’d better pay attention to your hormone levels.

From the time you’re born, you start aging, so you can either pay attention to this report, or prematurely age. It’s up to you. Oh yeah, I almost forgot.

Aging in men is also characterized by progressive decline in levels of hormones such as testosterone, HGH and DHEAS. Remember, this is a multiple of deficiency type of hormones. Men deficient in (3) hormones (Testosterone, HGH and DHEA) were more than two and one-quarter times more likely to die sooner.

“Since I’ve been using these crèmes I’ve regained my youth. More muscle mass, less fat, all thanks to these bio topical crèmes. This is the best thing I’ve ever done. Every morning I use these crèmes and I feel incredible. I have more energy, more power at the gym, and they have literally transformed my life. I’m 50 years old and I’m now in the ‘shape of my life.”

Dr. Breitenmoser, CA

Scientists concluded that age associated decline in hormone levels is a STRONG independent predictor of mortality in older men.

That’s a point you want to consider … if you’re a MAN. And don’t forget, having multiple hormone deficiencies is a reliable biomarker of the health status in both males and females. If I’m a man, and I KNOW that a hormone deficient is going to affect my heart, I want to do everything I can to offset this deficient. Hormonally deficient men with ‘chronic heart failure’ have the poorest prognosis “because of their LOW hormone levels”.

Here’s another significant fact. DHEA deficiency correlated positively with a left ventricular disturbance. This can be a deficiency of DHEA plus a deficiency of Testosterone, and HGH.

How many people have a problem with their heart and could have ‘relief’ by using bio topical hormone crèmes?

FACT: Men with ‘chronic’ heart failure and normal levels of ALL hormones had the best 3 year survival rate (83 percent) compared to those with 1 hormone deficiency (74 percent survival rate), 2 hormone deficiencies (55 percent survival rate), and 3 hormone deficiencies (27 percent) survival rate.

It really doesn't have to be this way though.

Very seldom does ONE hormone decline in isolation. If you didn’t read that correctly, I suggest you read the last sentence again. You usually don’t have just ONE hormone decline.

Hormones need to be in balance for good health, and when one hormone declines --- the balance is thrown out of kilter. If one hormone is imbalanced in your system, chances are ALL of them are going to be out of balance.

When this imbalance happens, there is an abnormal amount of stress placed on your body to compensate for his stress and it throws the other hormones out of balance. What it does is, it creates a ‘domino effect’ in your hormonal system.

Here’s something else to think about.

Multiple hormone deficiencies are ‘COMMON’ in people “PAST” the age of 40.

Q. Why would you wait to buy a hormone if you knew the problem in advance?

Let me answer that for you. You wouldn’t WAIT, would you? No you would not. Not if you were smart. Every hear one of your friends or relatives say, “I don’t know what happened. It just seemed like I fell apart as soon as I turned 40!” Honestly, they were aging and falling apart, long before their symptoms became apparent.

This is your WARNING:

PAY ATTENTION!

We take diseases for granted …as being inevitable parts of the so-called aging process …but they are just ‘manifestations of a hormonal decline’ in our systems.

FACT: Diseases Are Associated With Hormonal Dysfunction?

Think about this…high blood pressure, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, arthritis, joint pain, osteoporosis, cognitive impairment, and even allergies can be symptoms of a…

Hormonal Insufficiency

Dis-eases are associated with ‘HORMONAL INSUFFICIENCY’. The current epidemic of BREAST CANCER can be primarily the result of a hormonal decline in the females hormone levels, as well as a PROSTATE CANCER in males.

“Young people with ‘FULL’ healthy hormonal profiles - RARELY get any of these dis-eases I’ve mentioned throughout this report.”

The symptoms of hormonal imbalance BEGIN at around age 40; long after the person has had a declining hormone level for more than 10 years prior to their symptoms beginning.

All the organic fruits and vegetables, vitamins and mineral supplements, chemical-free living, and exercise --- WILL NOT SAVE you from a hormone decline… UNLESS you are using a BIO TOPICAL hormone like the crèmes from West Coast Bio Topical.***

Aging and hormonal deficiency is built into everyone - like a “ticking” time bomb.

It’s going to happen …it’s just a matter of TIME BEFORE IT REARS IT’S UGLY HEAD. Bio Topical hormone crèmes help de-fuse this built in ‘ticking’ TIME BOMB and turn things around.

Our ancestors, who lived healthy lifestyles, grew their own food in their fields, got plenty of exercise and had never heard of the chemicals we now take for granted, but they still LOST their hormones and DIET at an early age.

You have a way to change what ‘Mother Nature’ has in store for you!

FACT: Your body will do whatever it can to protect you, but “everyone’s days are numbered.” In other words, YOUR hormones will decrease in your body – automatically, without notice, so you have to help SAVE IT.

This decrease in hormones happens to everyone.

Believe it or not, we are able to somewhat postpone the inevitable and continue on our merry way for years… IF … you can get ‘nature’ to believe you are still able to reproduce and flourish, without the use of synthetic hormones.

With the advent of these specialized bio topical hormone crèmes, people are separating themselves from every other living thing by their ability to prolong health and well being beyond what Nature had in mind, due to this hormonal decline.

FACT: Bio Topical hormone crèmes can extend your years so you live happily, plus ADD life to your years. You experience a healthy and independent quality of life --- until you die.

What I’m saying is this. These hormone crèmes help you maintain your health and energy. YOU CAN STILL BE ACTIVE AT 80 just by balancing your hormones! A body starved for hormones will respond to these hormone crèmes … NO matter what!

Even the AGE of the person --- Doesn’t matter… when talking about hormone crème therapy. But the sooner you get started --- the better off you’ll be.

Here’s the last thing I want to tell you.

Is sleep …really that important? What does that have to do with hormones?

Ask anyone with insomnia.

One of the “worst symptoms” of hormone decline typically found in women and men is… the inability to sleep. Yes sleep! Night after night, little or no sleep leads to cognitive and psychological impairment, and a miserable quality of life.

If you can’t sleep,

this report will be a GOD send to you.

You can buy the best mattress on the market, but if you have a hormonal imbalance, most likely you’re still not going to sleep restfully.

Research has shown that restoring hormones (at ANY age) will help restore the person’s ability to sleep restfully. That’s what most people don’t understand. Using these special hormones will give your body what it wants.

Don’t Wait To Get These Hormones!

Your health depends on you having balance, so don’t wait around. Order these hormone crèmes from West Coast Bio-Topical today. They’ll provide the foundation for extending you good health and well being.

Again, these Bio Topical HORMONE Crèmes are available from: www.boulderantiaging.com

The FDA has not evaluated these statements. Products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent disease.

Network Family Wellness Center

Drs. Daniel & Richelle Knowles D.C.

1715 15th Street, Boulder, CO 80302

303.998.1000

www.boulderantiaging.com

Network Family Wellness CenterDrs. Daniel & Richelle Knowles D.C.1715 15th Street, Boulder, CO 80302303.998.1000www.boulderantiaging.com

Testosterone The Hormone of Champions and Weekend Warriors

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:49:50 MST

“Testosterone”

The Hormone of

Champions and Weekend Warriors

Special Hormone Report #2

“Have You Ever Wished You Could -

Stop Feeling Tired And Run Down?”

How About Wanting To Build Muscle Mass Like You Had When You Were A Young Man?

Wanted To Know How To Regain That Lost Muscle Mass In Just A Few Short Months?

or even how to…

‘Regain That 20-Year-Old Sex Drive?’

Dear Friend,

If you answered YES to any of those questions, you definitely have to, read this report!

I’ve talked to a lot of doctors and friends about Testosterone and if you want to look your best, feel your best and have the best out of life, you need to read this.

Before I tell you about Testosterone, I want to give you something to think about.

The Great Recession, so I’m told, has been great for one segment of the economy — the makers of pills and potions that offer the promise of keeping people healthy. A middle-aged woman remarked as she perused the supplement shelves in my local health food store (I was buying bulgur): “I can’t afford to get sick. I lost my job and I have no health insurance.”

Each year millions of people fall prey to false promises that this, that or the other formula or fortified food can protect their hearts, prevent cancer, improve memory, strengthen their bones, uncreak their joints, build their muscles, even enable them to burn extra calories without moving.

The desire to achieve a healthy old age is laudable indeed, and will be even more so in the future. According to a projection of the century-long rise in life expectancy published in The Lancet in October, more than half the children born since 2000 in wealthy countries can expect to celebrate their 100th birthday.

If so many of us are destined to become centenarians, it is all the more important to be able to enjoy those years unencumbered by chronic disease and disability. There is no virtue in simply living long; the goal should be to live long and well.

But while much is known about how to raise the odds of a healthy old age, only a minority of Americans incorporate into their lives what is likely to give them the biggest bang for their buck. Like the woman in the health food store, they’d rather rely on supplements of vitamins and minerals, fish oils and herbs, perhaps washed down with pricey antioxidant juices.

Unfortunately, sound evidence for the benefits of most such products is sorely lacking; in some cases the best scientific evidence has shown no benefit, and in a few cases has even shown harm. Human chemistry is far more complex than visionaries thought just two decades ago, when reputable scientists pushed for fortifying foods with substances they believed would prevent cancer and heart disease.

The Longevity Diet

After decades of government guidelines and advice from friends, family and physicians, Americans have made some improvements in their eating habits. On average, we consume less red meat and saturated fat and somewhat more whole grains, fruits and vegetables. Our processed foods were recently stripped of artery-clogging trans fats, thanks to a campaign that challenged the food industry to better protect American hearts. And our pigs (though, alas, not our people) have gotten much leaner in recent years.

But, and this is a big but, we are a long way from consuming the kind of diet most closely linked to a low risk of heart disease, cancer, diabetes, stroke and dementia. That diet need not be strictly vegetarian, but it should emphasize plant-based foods grass fed meat and other products that come from animals that eat plants. The closer to the earth we eat, the healthier — and leaner — we are likely to be.

Most of the evidence for the assumed health benefits of specific nutrients comes not from stuffing people with supplements but rather from observing the effects of eating foods rich in these nutrients. Supplements of antioxidants failed to protect against disease the way a diet rich in fruits and vegetables seems to.

Rather than isolated nutrients, combinations of them, along with other perhaps unidentified substances in foods, are now thought to confer the observed health benefits.

You have no doubt heard much about the so-called Mediterranean diet, and with good reason.

This eating style, in its classic form, is most closely linked to a healthy body and mind as people age: a lower risk of heart disease, high blood pressure, stroke, diabetes, breast cancer and Alzheimer’s disease.

It is loaded with nutrient-rich vegetables and fruits, beans and grains, fish and meat and poultry. Olive oil is the primary fat for cooking and eating, even replacing butter as a smear on bread.

But the Mediterranean diet does not come in a pill or potion. You have to eat the foods to reap the rewards.

Consider also taking supplements of two nutrients in otherwise short supply — calcium and vitamin D. In addition to protecting bones from age-related decline, vitamin D in amounts of 800 to 1,000 international units daily for middle-aged and older adults may improve muscle strength (and thus reduce the risk of falls and fractures), help prevent several common cancers, counter depression and enhance cognitive function, various studies have suggested.

The second crucial ingredient is regular physical exercise. I know, you’ve heard this song before and you know you should do it, but ... fill in the blank: you hate exercise, you have NO time, the weather is lousy, the children are sick, you’re injured, you don’t get enough sleep as it is.

It’s easy to find reasons NOT to exercise.

It’s time to stop making excuses and make regular physical activity an integral part of your life, like eating, sleeping and brushing your teeth. You don’t decide every day to do these things, you just do them.

Likewise with exercise. And here’s something most men don’t know. Exercise helps increase you libido because it increases your testosterone levels.

Move for Good Health

The single most effective activity, studies have found, is an aerobic activity like brisk walking — about 30 minutes a day. Raise your Testosterone levels. If you can’t get out of the house, walk inside. Go up and down stairs, walk the hall, walk from room to room, walk in place. If walking doesn’t suit you, try dancing to music.

Think testosterone levels when you’re exercising.

In a 2006 study of people aged 60 to 79, those who were assigned to walk briskly three days a week for 45 minutes a day experienced an increase in the brain’s volume, especially in regions involved in memory, planning and multitasking.

Even people already afflicted with chronic ailments — heart or lung disease, arthritis, diabetes, depression, early dementia — can reap significant health benefits from exercise, studies have found.

Americans have yet to learn what Hippocrates, the father of medicine, recognized in 400 B.C. “All parts of the body which have a function if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly; but if unused and left idle they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.”

So get off the couch and make this year the year you discover the joys and benefits of movement, a higher level of Testosterone and a higher level of libido. You can’t go wrong.

But like I said earlier, if you have any of the above named symptoms, the ones at the start of this report, you need to understand,…Testosterone Will Most Likely Help You?

This is not going to be that hard to understand, once you get on a roll so, in answer to your question…

“Will this apply to me in my state of health?”, the only correct answer has to be…YOU BET IT CAN! If you’re tired, have lost muscle mass over the past few years and just don’t have the same kind of sex drive you had when you were 21 years old, most likely you are low on a hormone called Testosterone.

When you’re done reading this report, you should know one heck of a lot more about Testosterone and staying fit.

Sometimes, if you have any, your symptoms can be caused by simply a lack of enough Testosterone in your body and the one surefire cure, if that is your problem, is to get your Testosterone levels back up… to where they should were when you were younger.

Simple huh?

Getting them there the right way is the ticket.

I’m going to give you a little background on this and discuss the hormone Testosterone: how it is made, how it is used by your body, and specific recommendations to make it the best health investment you’ve ever made.

Make sure you pay close attention to what I’m about to share with you. This is written for the causal reader, as well as men that are interested in Testosterone replacement, DHEA, HGH, muscular improvement and balance, and a higher libido. With that said, let’s get started.

Testosterone is a hormone that ... signifies and starts the body growing during puberty. All boys go through this, but most of the time, they don’t know why and what causes it, they just know it happens.

These hormone levels are also found in girls just as they start to reach puberty, although not in the same quantity as boys.

Testosterone helps develop your body, enlarge many organs (Not only your penis, but your heart and lungs), as well as bring on the occurrence of pubic hair, bodily odor and some facial hair. So if you smell bad, you can blame it on your Testosterone level.

Testosterone is the male sex hormone, secreted by the males testes.

Like I just said, the production of Testosterone is responsible for the development of the male sex organs, muscle growth, sex drive and energy levels in the male.

Yes, energy levels, so I’ll try and address that later.

Now during puberty, male adolescents have ‘increased production of testosterone’ resulting in the development of facial hair and a deepening of the voice. When a boy starts these changes you can be sure he’s producing a ton of Testosterone.

Testosterone induces changes in shape, size and... can even change the appearance and the number of muscle fibers in a male. Androgens like testosterone can protect your hard earned muscle from the catabolic (muscle wasting) glucocorticoid hormones, thus inhibiting their ability to send a message to muscle cells to release stored protein.

If you like a firm physique, this is something you might want to pay attention to.

Remember, Testosterone sends a message TO your muscle cells TO STORE more contractile protein (called actin and myosin); glucocorticoid hormones send the opposite message. You don’t want this to happen.

If you don’t have the proper levels of Testosterone (and most MEN don’t) you are going to have ‘weaker muscles’ and ‘less sex drive’ because the glucocorticoid hormones are overwhelming your body.

If your wife or girlfriend has mentioned this to you, that you’re not performing like you used to, this may be the answer you’ve been looking for.

In addition, Testosterone has the ability to increase your red blood cell production in the kidneys, and a higher Red Blood Cell (RBC) count means you may improve endurance via better oxygenated blood. And isn’t life all about endurance?

This is a huge plus when you’re talking about being healthy and competing in sports. But if you’re past the sports, you might want to think about the endurance in the bedroom. Almost all the men I know want to look better than they do and perform better.

Here’s a little tidbit. Research has proven that the more RBCs you have will help you improve recovery from any type of strenuous physical activity you might participate in. With that said, let me decipher that for you.

The HIGHER your Testosterone levels, the better your recovery rates, the more your endurance, the higher the libido,… no matter what your age.

Now let’s look at implants and Testosterone.

Implants

I’m going to touch on a subject you may or may not want to hear about. Testosterone implants. These Testosterone implants allow a ‘slow release’ of the natural Testosterone hormone into your system. The thing is, they have a few side effects.

Testosterone implants are formed by fusing ‘crystalline Testosterone’ at high temperatures under sterile conditions. The implants are about the size of a wheat grain (4.5 x 12 mm). The action of the implants peaks approximately one month after implantation and lasts for 4-5 months depending on the individual.

These are very expensive and can only be administered by a medical clinic that specializes in hormone implants. From what I’ve heard, it doesn’t feel that good and the initial cut makes it hard to sit down for a few days.

By now you know, Testosterone also drives tissue-building changes. These include thickening of the vocal chords, growth spurts, development of sexual libido, and an increase in strength and muscle bulk. So it does a lot when it comes to male development.

Both genitalia and brain development are also influenced by this powerful hormone. Most people are aware that Testosterone is responsible for normal growth and development of male sex organs and maintenance of secondary sex characteristics.

In mammals, Testosterone is primarily secreted in the testes of males and the ovaries of females, although small amounts are ... secreted by the adrenal glands. It is the principal male sex hormone and an anabolic steroid. A steroid hormone is one that is made from cholesterol. Let’s talk about injections of Testosterone.

Injections

Testosterone is an injectable steroid, which comes in an oil presentation. This medication releases testosterone gradually from the injection site. Once administered, serum concentrations of this hormone will increase for several days, and remain markedly elevated for approximately ‘two’ weeks.

Your Testosterone levels can vary wildly between different men and even within individuals as a result of illness or stress.

But Here’s the Kicker Most Men Forget

Studies have consistently shown that levels of the hormone decrease as men age. We all know we’re not as strong as we used to be. We look different and our bodies look different.

Here’s a little background on Testosterone.

The Organon group in the Netherlands were the first to isolate the hormone, identified in a May 1935 paper "On Crystalline Male Hormone from Testicles (Testosterone)" by Karoly Gyula David, E. Dingemanse, J. Freud and Ernst Laqueur.

They named the hormone Testosterone, from the stems of testicle and sterol, and the suffix of ketone. The structure was worked out by Schering’s Adolf Butenandt (1903–1995).

Testosterone replacement should in theory approximate natural, endogenous production of the hormone.

The clinical rationale for treatment of Testosterone deficiency may include:

stabilizing or increasing your bone density (less chance for osteoporosis)

enhancing body composition by increasing muscle strength (better physique)

reducing your (fat) adipose tissue (less belly fat)

improving energy (everyone needs more of that)

improving your moods (less fighting with the other sex)

maintaining or restoring secondary sexual characteristics

driving your libido levels back to where they were when you were young

helping with erectile function (a major problem with men today)

So How Do You Know If You Need Testosterone?

Look in the mirror.

If you’re aging, if you don’t have the sexual drive you did years ago, this means you’re missing a hormone, and most likely it’s Testosterone.

The best way to find out if you need Testosterone is to do a simple, non-invasive hormone count.

How Do You Do That?

As if you don’t have enough decisions to make, deciding which test to take to measure your hormones can be tough, … up until now.

Here’s the simple way to find out if… you are LOW on Testosterone.

I’ve tried alleviating all the extra stressors by offering you the simplest and best way to check your hormones.

Saliva.

You know, spit.

As a doctor I’ve come to realize that ‘saliva hormone testing’ is by far the simplest and most accurate way to determine metabolic factors and biological age.

With the help of a trained physician or expert health professional, like this office, you’ll learn how to achieve and maintain a ‘bio-hormone balance’ and this means a HIGHER Testosterone level.

Needless to say, no one should be careless and use Testosterone without understanding how to balance it.

You don’t or shouldn’t do your own electrical work, if you’re building or remodeling a house, so you don’t want to just do this without have an understanding of how to balance these special hormones, especially Testosterone. That’s what this saliva testing is all about.

After your Saliva Test, we can customize a life-long natural plan tailored to you and ONLY YOU...

A saliva panel administered at this office is my favorite screening tool for determining an accurate hormone count.

Hormones found in your saliva are FREE and unbound by protein. This means saliva analyses would reflect the EXACT markers of your own working hormonal activity.

Saliva hormone testing is the only easy test through which you can directly and accurately measure FREE Unbound Active Hormones. This is the most accurate way for you to find out what your hormone levels are.

If you want to do the testing, here’s the criteria:

Inaccuracy can be controlled by NOT drinking or eating two hours BEFORE the testing sample.

You should not have any bleeding gums prior to testing as this will contaminate the sample

Brush or floss your teeth prior to the sample being collected.

Saliva specimens contaminated with food or blood will cause abnormal and inaccurate test results.

All specimens are to be clean and non-contaminated.

Discontinue hormone supplementation for 24 hours prior to collecting saliva samples

Don’t eat or drink, or smoke an hour before each saliva sample collection. Water is fine, however, anything else poses a problem with regard to testing accuracy.

One last point before I end this.

Synthetic vs Bioidentical Hormones

I’ve been ‘fooled’ many times by the similarity of cubic zirconia and diamonds.

How about you? I can’t tell the difference, but unfortunately, jewelers can. Wives can tell the difference too. They have a keen eye.

The same goes for hormones.

If you don’t know a good hormone from a bad one, you’ll never know

Fake vs. Real

(Which would you prefer?)

Monopoly money or real cold hard cash?

Plastic flowers or real roses.

Silicon breasts or real firm breasts.

Acrylic sweaters or cashmere sweaters.

Synthetic hormones or bioidentical hormones.

What’s My Point:

Just as geological deposits like caves make diamonds, your body makes hormones.

Bioidentical hormones are made from the exact same compounds that produce hormones in your body--- bio identical literally means identical to your biology)

And the easiest way to do that is via something we call:

Testosterone Replacement Therapy (TRT). This can be achieved in a number of ways and this includes:

topical testosterone gels (some do not even work)

testosterone cremes

short and long acting injections of testosterone esters (not a safe way)

testosterone transdermal skin patches (these can work but are a pain)

subcutaneous testosterone implants (these definitely hurt)

oral testosterone capsules

After researching this over the last few months, we’ve found that the best and safest way to get those levels back to normal is by using a special crème by West Coast Bio-Topical.

Do not confuse bio-identical hormones with phytohormones either. Those are supplements that are combined formulations of herbal extractions and natural chemical substances.

Bioidentical hormones work differently-they give you what you need, when you need it, with no side effects.

Synthetic Hormones And Why You

Have To Pay Attention

Synthetic hormones can bring about rapid results. But here’s something to think about.

With those rapid results, you also get dangerous long-term side effects.

With synthetic hormones, you may be damaging some parts of your body in order to remedy another part.

Is this really what you want?

Powerful Reasons To Consider Natural Hormone Replacement

Relief of symptoms

Prevention of memory loss

Improvement to heart health

Prevention of osteoporosis

Increase cell repair and growth

Here’s something else to consider.

Synthetic hormones are made from:

Answer what you think the correct answer is.

A) Coal tar

B) Horse urine

C) Chemicals that will potentially cause cancer

D) All of the above

You tell me what you think the correct answer is.

You’ll most likely be surprised.

Dr. Erica T. Schwartz, author of Hormone Solution says, “Synthetic hormones are simply no replacement for natural hormones. After many years of getting poor or no results with conventional capital HRT in my practice, natural hormones proved to be more effective and safer than any other treatment I have seen or use.”

Correct answer to the question: D, all of the above on the preceding page.

One last thing.

Weight loss can be made easy.

Dr. F. Fuller Royal, Clinical ecologist, Food Sensitivity and Environmental Medicine stated, “A very high percentage (80%) of obese patients have serious food allergy/addiction. They will NEVER be able to adequately conquer the problems of obesity… until their allergic-addictive foods have been identified and eliminated from their diets.”

If you have belly fat and you don’t have balanced hormones, you’re not going to be able to ‘lose weight and ‘keep it off’. It’s not in the cards.

If you ready to be tested, schedule an appointment with the front desk today.

We’ll give you the necessary vials, and then have you take the samples and return them to us ASAP so we can help you determine this by sending your saliva to the lab. We’ll call you for a follow up office visit as soon as your results are analyzed.

(If you need additional copies of this ‘Special Hormone Report’ for your co-workers or relatives, please do not hesitate to ask.) We want to help as many people get their hormones balanced as possible. We also do hormone testing for females and their progesterone and estrogen levels.

Thank you for taking the time to read this report.

Dr. Daniel Knowles, D.C.

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Adrenal Health

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:21:32 MST

Adrenal Health

DHEA and Adrenal Imbalance

Two months ago, Lisa, a 28-year-old mom, came to see me. She was so worn out from mothering two kids and working full-time she couldn't get out of bed. Just driving to our practice took everything she had. Her tests revealed severe adrenal imbalance and, as so often occurs in these cases, very low levels of an important hormone called DHEA.

DHEA is a natural steroid and precursor hormone produced by the adrenals. Manufacturers hype it as a magic cure-all for many things: muscle loss, weight loss, osteoporosis, and depression - even menopause. Recently headlines have linked DHEA to athletes "doping" with steroids, leading to a lot of confusion about DHEA, its role in the body, and how it should be used. Now DHEA is being labeled the "fountain of youth drug" - and the very real benefits of DHEA, particularly for women, are getting lost in all the controversy. The truth is that - for the women who need it - adrenal support with DHEA crème from West Coast Anti Aging can make a big difference. I've seen it help patients get going again when they feel like they've hit rock bottom. But it's never as simple as just popping a pill. When used appropriately - in a therapeutic setting - DHEA is a critical component to jump starting hormonal balance.

Just ask Lisa. After two months of treatment that included lifestyle changes and adrenal support with low daily doses of DHEA, she feels like herself again. You can talk to us and make the best choice for your individual needs. These natural hormone crèmes are available.

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Testosterone For FEMALES

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:04:03 MST

Testosterone For FEMALES

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Believe it or not… the hormone Testosterone is NOT just for MEN.

You may not know this, but men and women actually do have something in common: and that is their HORMONES.

Men for some reason, need a little estrogen for their natural feminine sides, and women need some testosterone to level the score. MEN may not like to admit it, but it’s the truth.

So what does using TESTOSTERONE do for you if you’re a WOMAN?

Think strong, energetic and responsive – sexually responsive. That’s what Testosterone provides for both Men and Women, it’s just that most Men and Women don’t know this.

For Women, when the right levels of this “male” hormone are present, menopausal women can look forward to stronger bones, lean muscles, a sense of well-being and a healthy sex drive.

Women have also noticed that Testosterone tends to stabilize the emotional and moody swings, so this hormone really helps with a lot of female issues.

Now let me explain what the hormone is.

Testosterone is a hormone found in the androgen group.

It is derived from cholesterol (like all the sex hormones) and its immediate predecessor is DHEA.

Even though it is thought of as “the male hormone”, testosterone also plays a very important role in women. Testosterone for women is produced in the ovaries and in the adrenal glands. These are the little glands that sit on top of your kidneys.

Here’s something most people don’t know. Ovaries also function to help produce testosterone - even after menopause.

Therefore, women who have their ovaries removed are at serious risk for declined testosterone levels right out of the gate, and the resulting symptoms associated with it.

When a woman has healthy levels of Testosterone - her sex drive is strong, when a women has low Testosterone - her sex drive is flat or none existent. (If you’re one of the latter women, make sure you get your testosterone ordered at the front desk today.)

The Purpose of Testosterone in Women

There are many functions of testosterone in women: It is essential for bone strength and development of lean muscle mass and strength.

Testosterone also contributes to overall sense of well-being and energy level. It is best known for its critical role is a woman’s sex drive or libido.

As a matter of fact, testosterone in women is responsible for the ‘sensitivity’ of sexual pleasure.

Testosterone not only heightens the sexual mood of a woman, but the ‘experience’ as well.

Menopause and Testosterone

Similar to other hormones, the onset of perimenopause and menopause cause the decline in production of testosterone (by at least 50%) in women.

Again, hysterectomy with or without removal of the ovaries will cause a more significant weakening in your testosterone levels, if you’re a female.

Also, high levels of stress can turn away the precursors for testosterone hormone production in women over to cortisol production and create a further decrease.

Elevated stress levels can also contribute to symptoms earlier in the perimenopause when a woman is in her late thirties or early forties.

What does this mean? This means less energy, brittle hair, less, softer and weaker bones and loss muscle strength, fat deposits where you don’t want them, and a diminished sexual drive.

A hysterectomy and certain prescription drugs can also result in lower levels of testosterone for you if you’re a woman.

So What’s The Solution

If you have low levels of Testosterone, our homeopathic hormone replacement cream program will help.

As a result of them using this hormone cream, many women enjoy renewed sexual drive, more energy and even greater bone density.

How Replacing Low Testosterone Works

Testosterone is known as a “male” hormone, or androgen. As you already know Testosterone also is made in small amounts by a woman’s adrenal glands and ovaries.

A woman’s testosterone is highest around age 20 and slowly declines till it is half as high in her 40s, so this is when everything seems to happen to women.

In men, testosterone is linked to male physical traits and sex drive.

In women, testosterone is linked to sex drive, bone strength, fat to muscle ratio and so forth.

But for women, interest in sex is much more complicated than just testosterone levels, but testosterone is a strong factor. Testosterone is the 1. Sex Drive, 2. Muscle, 3. Low Fat, 4. Strong Bones, 5. Healthy Heart Hormone.

Using West Coast’s Testosterone cream raises testosterone levels in a females body.

Testosterone may improve sex drive, so only a proper replenishment dose to youthful levels is recommended – Remember the goal is youthful therapeutic replenishment to bring your levels to where they were when you were at a more youthful age.

Are you a Woman and Do you have Low Testosterone because of a Hysterectomy?

Low Testosterone for natural reasons like Aging

(Majority of Women experience Low Testosterone at some point in their life).

A woman who has had their ovaries removed (oophorectomy). This causes a sudden drop in testosterone, which may decrease sex drive and satisfaction.

Have a low sex drive that does not seem to be caused by a medicine, nor by relationship or stress-related problems.

Have an adrenal system problem or an underactive pituitary gland (hypopituitarism).

Naturally Low Testosterone (a Majority of Women)

Do NOT take testosterone if you:

Could become pregnant.

Have or have had breast or uterine cancer.

Have high cholesterol or heart disease.

Have liver disease.

If you use testosterone and could become pregnant, be sure to use highly effective birth control.

In many women, testosterone may have a direct effect on sex drive and sexual response. Women taking testosterone may have more sexual thoughts, fantasies, activity, and more intense satisfaction.

There is sometimes a suggestive strong link between a woman’s high testosterone and high sex drive, or between low sex drive and low testosterone.

You can have a low testosterone level in your body and have a normal sex drive or have high testosterone and very little interest in sex.

Testosterone Replacement is more about putting people into a healthy zone or range.

Side Effects

Experts know that:

Testosterone should not be taken during pregnancy because it affects a growing fetus.

The goal of testosterone treatment is to raise a woman’s testosterone level no higher than what is normal for a younger healthier woman.

All current testosterone products are made for dosing in men.

There is not yet a standard dose or blood test for women, so dosing is adjusted based on your symptoms. You are taking a dose that is too high if you have:

Acne or oily skin.

Male-pattern hair loss from the scalp.

Male-pattern hair growth on the face and body.

Anger and hostility problems.

Shrinking breast size.

Hoarseness or a deeper voice. (This is the one side effect that may not go away after you stop testosterone treatment.)

Irregular menstrual cycles, if you have been menstruating.

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DHEA is the Mother Of All Hormones

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 06:45:19 MST

DHEA is the Mother Of

All Hormones

I’m not sure if you understand how important hormones are to aging. I didn’t, but I do now. Let me tell you about the mother of all hormones, HGH/DHEA.

DHEA is made in your brain and in your adrenal cortex , and is one of the most plentiful hormones in your body. Levels of DHEA decline with age, and by the time you are a 70 year old you only have about 10% of the DHEA produced by a 20 year old. I know you’re probably thinking that is normal, but it’s not.

Diminishing levels of DHEA are linked to a wide range of degenerative diseases including heart disease, Alzheimer's disease and many types of cancer.

Current research shows that low DHEA levels especially in older people, are a cause of many age related disorders and that supplementation with DHEA as a creme can SLOW the ravages of time and aging. If you can restore your body to where it has adequate levels of DHEA, this can increase your testosterone levels, restore your muscle mass, improve your body fat ratio, improve your memory, and boost your immune system. It’s also useful in combating auto-immune disorders, obesity, senile dementia, osteoporosis, chronic fatigue syndrome, and depression so it’s a GREAT hormone to use.

DHEA even promotes flexibility in your body and raises your stamina and endurance levels. That’s great for anyone that wants to stay young. SECRET: DHEA is the hormone that helps you reach and keep your ideal weight too. How many people in America need it right now? It is the basis of the hormone that tells your brain when you've had enough to eat, and inhibits the conversion of glucose to fat, so it’s pretty important.

When your body is low on DHEA, fat piles on quickly, whenever you are eating carbohydrates, since there is nothing to inhibit the conversion of glucose to fat. DHEA protects you against arteriosclerosis by lowering your cholesterol and insulin levels. How many people need this? This mechanism keeps you safe from diabetes if you eat a healthy diet. It is another hormone that keeps your immune system strong, helping you to prevent cancer. It also protects your brain from Parkinson's and Alzheimer's by protecting neurons, so it does a lot. This hormone we call DHEA is available without a prescription as a crème available from West Coast Bio-topical . The average dose for women is 10 to 12 mg. a day. For men it is 25 mg. a day. DHEA peaks in your body in the morning, so you should use the creme in the morning to maintain the circadian (heart) rhythm. If you suspect you have a DHEA deficiency, (if you’re over 25 I am almost sure you’re deficient) it's best to confirm it with a blood test before beginning supplementation, but that is up to you.

As with all the hormones, including Testosterone, Progesterone, and Estriol, the goal is to attain a physiological level, meaning that you want to restore the level your body made naturally when it was at its peak. Take these hormones, apply them daily, in the morning after a shower and you’re not going to believe the results.

Please check with the front desk for availability of these hormone crèmes, you can also purchase them on the following website:

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With This Safe Effective DHEA Creme

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 06:30:10 MST

“FEEL” YOUR BEST & “LOOK” YOUR BEST

With This Safe Effective DHEA Creme

Safe effective DHEA Crème’ from West Coast Anti Aging is a 100%, all natural creme that restores vigor and vitality while helping you feel lean ‘fit’ and ‘trim’ again.

IMAGINE naturally restoring your youthful vigor by using a simple crème that you apply, once to twice a day.

This specially formulated creme restores YOUR youthful vigor, without the worries of side effects.

There’s been a number of articles written about the rejuvenating benefits of DHEA in the magazines, so pay attention. Within a few weeks of applying this crème you’re going to feel leaner, fitter and more energetic overall. You’ll even start to sleep better at night.

DHEA is a naturally occurring compound. It is the most abundant pro-hormone or building block for hormones in your system; but what most people do not realize is we gradually make less and less DHEA AFTER about age 25.

DHEA is called the “the mother of all hormones”.

DHEA is an important building block for 50 different hormones. Whether male or female, studies have shown youthful DHEA levels are tied to good health, while low levels of DHEA are tied to numerous health problems. DHEA is a safe, effective way to look your best and feel your best without any plastic surgery, no matter how old you are.

The crème is the secret. It provides the daily user DHEA in the right way - through the skin.

Clinical research reveals that 88% of DHEA metabolism occurs in the skin.* This discovery adds logical credence to the application of West Coast’s Anti Aging bio-identical DHEA crème on the skin as the best way to get DHEA into your system. The skin is where we use DHEA. * (Labrie, et al. Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Feb. 2008)

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For Women Only

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 06:15:32 MST

For Women Only

Natural DHEA Creme

If you love being a woman, you’ll love reading this short article. I’m going to talk about DHEA and how it can help you IF you’re a woman.

DHEA is the most common hormone in the body and is produced mainly by the adrenal glands, and to a lesser degree, elsewhere in the body (including fat cells).

Now if you have not been getting my handouts, you are probably asking yourself:

What is DHEA?

Dehydroepiandrosterone, or DHEA, is a hormone synthesized from cholesterol and secreted by the adrenal glands. The adrenals are walnut-sized organs located right above your kidneys. The average adult makes about 25 mg of DHEA per day (some more, some less) with dwindling production as we get older. Men at all ages have more DHEA than women.

Natural DHEA production is at its highest in your twenties: by the time we reach seventy… we only make about 20% of the DHEA we had when we were young.

Another reason is that DHEA is a very powerful precursor to all of your major sex hormones: estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone. (Its molecular structure is closely related to testosterone). We call it the “mother hormone” — the source that fuels the body’s metabolic pathway: Low DHEA levels are associated with a host of diseases, including heart disease, diabetes, inflammation and Alzheimer's. Get your DHEA crème at the front desk and change how you feel.

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Is Testosterone Cream the Best Treatment for Your Symptoms

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 05:56:21 MST

Is Testosterone Cream the Best Treatment for Your Symptoms?

Low testosterone can have many causes and can even occur in young men. However, most often those with a problem with testosterone are older men suffering from Andropause (Male Menopause).

Andropause is a natural occurrence that some men worry about when there is really NO basis for any fear. While it’s true that men can develop androgen deficiency AFTER age 50, there are things we can be do to ease the discomforts that accompany its arrival.

A big factor in the cause of testosterone deficiency is a decrease in testosterone. Testosterone production declines naturally with age, usually after age 30. Low testosterone may result from disease or damage to the hypothalamus, pituitary gland, or testicles that inhibits hormone secretion and testosterone production, and is also known as hypogonadism.

Depending on age, insufficient testosterone production can lead to abnormalities in muscle and bone development, underdeveloped genitalia, and diminished virility.

Although not all men may actually experience testosterone deficiency after age 40, a number of symptoms may appear as andropause approaches:

Changes in sexual function - This may include reduced sexual desire, infertility, and fewer spontaneous erections, such as during sleep or in the early mornings when your testosterone levels should be highest.

Changes in sleep patterns - Sometimes low testosterone causes insomnia or other sleep disturbances.

Physical changes - Various physical changes are possible, including increased body fat, reduced muscle bulk and strength, and decreased bone density. Swollen or tender breasts (gynecomastia) and hair loss are possible. You may experience hot flashes and have less energy than you used to.

Emotional changes - Low testosterone may contribute to a decrease in motivation or self-confidence. You may feel sad or depressed, or have trouble concentrating or remembering things.

All of these symptoms can also affect young men as well if they are suffering from low testosterone.

The good news is that natural testosterone cream can be used by everyone suffering from these symptoms. Most men can enhance their health after age 35 by using West Coast natural Testosterone cream. Many men have found natural testosterone cream to be one of the most effective products they have used. We have this specialized testosterone cream available at this office. Please ask about it at the front desk when you’re here.

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February Valentines Day and National Heart Month

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:15:36 MST

February: Valentine's Day and National Heart Month!!

February is known for Valentine's Day (the day of the heart), and is also National Heart Month. We are all reminded of Valentine’s Day by yummy chocolate. We'll probably see on the news numerous studies claiming that consuming dark chocolate may cut heart disease. You may notice that studies such as these tend to appear in the news right about the time chocolate sales are picking up.

Chiropractic is also good for the heart, by way of the nervous system, and the removal of spinal stress. When we talk about the heart most people think about blood, and the job of the heart is to pump blood throughout the body. But what about the connection between the brain and the heart? We don't hear as much about that.

Like every organ in the body, the heart is controlled by the nervous system. There is a nerve that runs from the lower part of your brain (the brainstem) down to your heart. This is the vagus nerve (cranial nerve X). It is the only cranial nerve from your brain that extends down through your neck into your abdominal region. You certainly don't want to have spinal stress anywhere in your neck as it just doesn't feel good. That annoying and tender bump you can feel when you press your thumb into the side of your neck just below your ears is a fairly good sign you're suffering from spinal stress. Who wants to choke off the flow of life energy that your vagus nerve is supplying to your heart and stomach? That's just not a good idea.

Healing Myth Healing is expensive

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 04:30:43 MST

Healing Myth

Healing is expensive

In reality, disease and illness are expensive, and healing is always free. Just as we made a distinction between curing and healing, we can make a distinction between disease and illness. Contemporary medical textbooks define disease as an objectively verified disorder of bodily functions or systems, characterized by a recognizable cause and by an identifiable group of signs and symptoms. Illness, by contrast, indicates a person's subjective experience, which mayor may not indicate the presence of disease.

Curing a disease, or trying to eliminate our symptoms, condition, or crisis through medication, surgery, psychotherapy, or other modalities, can be extremely expensive. Illness, however, is more expensive than even the most expensive treatments for disease. If we were to place a dollar value on the debilitating effect that illness has on each of the most important areas of our life, including relationships, work, study, finances, recreation, and the overall enjoyment of life, we would be surprised at how important and valuable a healthy bodymind really is.

When we are healthy, we attract new opportunities and possibilities. We have energy to play, to work, to give, or to share with others. When we are feeling ill, our bodymind says, "I can't," and our happiness and good fortune often slip away. Illness brings a loss of vitality and creative thinking, a loss of the ability to maximize opportunities, and difficulty in formulating short- and long-term goals. Illness pervades our entire life; it brings a loss of the desire to work and play, a loss of the ability to maintain satisfying relationships, and diminishes our capacity to enjoy romantic love. Illness represents not only a substantial loss for ourselves, but a loss of the love, guidance, and inspiration we can provide to our family and friends. Illness brings nothing new, mysterious, rewarding, or exciting to our lives. In healing, however, we experience greater opportunities to be enriched and rewarded in many ways. Healing pays, while illness always costs us.

HEALING MAGIC

The internal process that is mine alone is both priceless and free. Although I may pay for a professional to assist me in regaining my health, the process initiated by me, within me, and through me is absolutely free. I claim my freedom to heal and celebrate my own healing power.

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Healing Myth Healing means becoming more balance comfortable and in control or my experience

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 04:28:25 MST

Healing Myth

Healing means becoming more balanced, comfortable, and in control or my experience.

This healing myth could be called the "granddaddy” of many of the myths found in this book. It has its origin in outmoded views about order and chaos that can be traced to the roots of the Tree of Knowledge.

According to this old myth, success in life depends upon becoming more balanced, comfortable, and in control of our life. Small changes are acceptable and encouraged, but rapid, unpredictable changes are to be avoided and controlled. This myth encourages us to seek a life that is predictable and safe -a life in which our plans never have to undergo rapid change. We are taught to insulate ourselves from feelings, experiences, situations, and events that we prefer not to have. When applied to healing, this myth suggests that chaotic events, disease symptoms, or any situation that disrupts our daily routine or plans are to be resisted, controlled, or eliminated. By adhering to this myth, we never give ourselves permission to gain the wisdom these experiences might offer.

Symptoms and disease often have their roots in old, unresolved feelings. They arise when the truth can no longer be silenced or obscured by our convenient and established story. What we resist only persists and grows stronger, until we can no longer keep these feelings contained within a particular region of the body. Disease, discord, and other chaotic events bring us the opportunity to break free of this energetic prison; we are biologically encouraged to "deal with it."

It is unfortunate that we may have to experience symptoms of disease to release the feelings inside us, but eventually, we will feel what we are concealing. A high fever, for example, helps dissipate energy that has been blocked within the body; it increases circulation, stimulates white blood cell production, enhances immunity, and pro- motes the filtration and elimination of toxins. Coughing and sneezing are dramatic ways by which the body breaks down boundaries in the respiratory system. Vomiting and diarrhea are chaotic ways in which the body releases what no longer serves the digestive system. Pain provides a clear, direct message that tells us to modify our behavior or stop what we are currently doing.

Change is a natural part of everyday life. A loss in life can eventually lead to a greater gain; a broken heart creates the opportunity for an open heart. Healing occurs as we live our experience without labeling it as balanced or unbalanced, comfortable or disturbing, and relinquish the myth that our educated mind knows more than our body's own healing mechanisms.

Joe’s Story

Joe was a star quarterback in high school, and made excellent grades in college. Graduating with honors from law school, he landed a job in a major law firm and married his high school sweetheart. They entertained regularly in their upper-middle-class suburban home, and their children went to boarding school. Joe was soon promoted to partner at his firm, and his daily life was as neatly manicured as the landscaping of his small estate. Although he appeared to be enjoying a perfect life, Joe began to develop high blood pressure, lower neck pain, and degenerative arthritic changes in his neck. He was taking one drug to control his hypertension, and another to help alleviate his migraine headaches. By the time Joe was forty years old, he had already undergone two spinal disc surgeries. His wife, who was living a similar lifestyle, was slowly becoming disabled with multiple sclerosis.

Joe's life remained carefully scheduled, and all annoyances and unexpected events were kept at bay. Everything in his life was seemingly balanced and under control, until a scandal revealed that his father, who was white, was having an affair with a woman of color. This was discovered the same year that Joe's only son announced that he was gay. Then his father passed away. No matter how Joe tried to insulate himself from these emotional upheavals, he could not. Medication could no longer mask his physical pain. Joe felt he was losing control over his life, and his physical and emotional condition deteriorated. At work, he was getting confused and less tolerant with clients. Then one day, after an angry outburst in the courtroom, Joe collapsed in pain.

Joe was incapacitated and confined to bed, and his wife reported that he "cried like a baby" for hours at a time. She soon became disgusted and frustrated with her husband, who could no longer contain his feelings and had "lost his dignity." Joe realized that his life was no longer under control. He took a leave of absence from work, sold his stock and real estate holdings to pay the bills, and, within a month, experienced a breakdown.

The shell that had separated Joe from the chaotic, emotional aspects of his life was cracking. Soon he decided to begin care at my clinic to improve the communication between his brain and the rest of his body. As Joe began to feel all the emotion he had previously denied, he felt freer than he had ever felt in his entire life. He stopped watching television, and began to sing spontaneously in the shower, in the car, and even while waiting in line at the supermarket. Joe's blood pressure dropped, his headaches disappeared, and he regained full motion in his neck. Within months after the breakdown, his body was relatively pain-free. Through the chaotic events of his breakdown, Joe began to rebuild his life and become whole again.

Joe's story illustrates how chaotic, unwanted events can have a positive impact on our life. Chaos and change will often redirect our journey toward greater self-discovery, broader perspectives, and the beginning of new and exciting relationships. Healing is not always what we think it is.

HEALING MAGIC

I give thanks for the unexpected events that take me from my established course and bring new experiences, relationships, and healing. I take this moment to rejoice in the miracle of life. I trust the flow of life, wherever it takes me, and make room in my day to celebrate changes in my schedule and plans. I am nurtured by change, and embrace both chaos and order in my life.

Network Family Wellness Center

Drs. Daniel & Richelle Knowles D.C.

1715 15th Street

Boulder, CO 80302

303.998.1000

Healing Myth Healing takes a lot of work and requires full commitment

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 04:26:21 MST

Healing Myth

Healing takes a lot of work and requires full commitment

Healing takes a lot of work and requires full commitment. Healing, in fact, is easy and effortless. Of course, if we try to use the intellect to gain control of the healing process, it does require work and full commitment. Healing does not reside in the domain of the intellect; healing is a natural and spontaneous part of life. If it were not, there would be no one alive to read this book. The human species has learned to thrive under life-challenging circumstances. This is how our family's lineage has survived long enough to produce us as its promise for the future. We are the salvation of our ancestors, and each one of us is the hope of future generations.

Ken Wilber, perhaps the world's greatest modern explorer of consciousness, has said that evolution produces greater depth, and “as depth increases, consciousness increasingly awakens, [and] spirit increasingly unfolds." We can say that a molecule has more depth or "purposeful complexity" than an atom, and a cell has more depth than the molecules that comprise it. Likewise, the human body has all the levels of complexity and intelligence of all the organs and systems that comprise it. Our bodymind enjoys greater organizational complexity, a more highly developed consciousness, and an increased potential to adapt to a difficult circumstance than ever before.

The myth that “healing takes a lot of work” underestimates our unique ability as human beings to adapt, survive, and thrive, even when faced with extreme physical and psychological hardships. This myth ignores our inherent abilities, strengths, and gifts. If we accept this myth as truth, we may downplay our talents, overlook our accomplishments, and fail to appreciate our innate gifts of humor, compassion, and spiritual insight.

When we become aware of these gifts, and experience our own “purposeful complexity,” our consciousness shifts toward the Tree of Life, and this shift is associated with healing. Those who align themselves with the Tree of Life begin to accept their symptoms, circumstances, or conditions with gratitude. They find ways to be grateful for the experience of pain or disease in their bodies, for their healing progress, and even for the ability to feel what they don’t like feeling. As a result, more of life’s gifts come their way.

We need to remember that becoming ill is what really takes work. The average person spends most of her energy trying to avoid the inevitable: change. Generally speaking, it takes more energy to resist the changes in our life than to surrender to them. Life is meant to be fully experienced. Instead of expending our energy to resist life, we need to fully experience it.

When we attempt to control our life experiences, our body becomes inflexible, and structural impediments begin to appear. Loss of motion of the spine and joints of the body develop as we resist the motion of life. Tension builds up in our bodymind, and inhibits the circulation of fluids in the body, and the natural rhythm and function of our organs. The body then devotes its energy toward building rigid muscular walls and energetic blocks that ultimately lead to physical pain. Emotion distress is also associated with energy that is blocked in any area of the body. These conditions, of course, demand more attention and consume more physical energy than a healthier existence.

Healing is natural and spontaneous, but an inability to experience our body with confidence and trust can hinder the healing process. Our body attempts to heal itself by releasing what it no longer needs — physically, chemically, emotionally, or energetically — but out intellect tries to resist or stop this process. Our bodymind is able to renew and reorganize itself automatically and effortlessly, but this process can be upsetting to our personality. healing may require us to say things we don’t like to say, hear things we haven’t heard before, feel things we don’t usually feel, and deal with things we have always resisted. If we judge our symptoms as “bad” or “wrong,” this also requires a tremendous investment of energy.

Healing is easy, effortless and natural. The healing power within us knows what it wants and needs. Change naturally occurs in the bodymind as an aspect of its adaptive process. Only when we resist or fear change does a change required by our bodymind involve work for our personality. In healing, the main work is to surrender the urge of our intellect to control life, and to detach from a specific outcome. By surrendering to the natural rhythm and flow of life, we step into the natural rhythm and flow of healing.

HEALING MAGIC

My healing is effortless and natural. My commitment to heal is a natural process requiring no work or special focus on my part. I am grateful for where I am in my healing process. I commit to my wholeness because it feels natural to do so.

Network Family Wellness Center

Drs. Daniel & Richelle Knowles D.C.

1715 15th street

Boulder, CO 80302

303.998.1000

Healing Myth Healing is not always Available

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 04:23:10 MST

Healing Myth

Healing is not always available.

It is late at night on a holiday weekend. You are feverish and in pain, and you want help now. At the emergency room of the local hospital, you learn that the specific treatment you need is not covered by your insurance because it is still considered “experimental.” You are told that it may be several years before the treatment becomes available, or that the procedure needed to treat your condition is too risky. Perhaps you are told that you are not a good candidate for this treatment, or your physician's prognosis of your condition is “terminal.” Scenarios like this one can seem hopeless. It appears that healing is not available to us at such a time.

The truth is that healing is always available. While it may be true that the particular doctor, therapist, or treatment we want may not be available, this has little to do with whether healing is available to us. Illness is due to a lack of wholeness and inner harmony in our bodymind. Healing means becoming more whole. It means getting in touch with the energy and information within our bodymind that have been separated, isolated, abused, shamed, or denied. Healing includes eliminating some of the physical, emotional, and chemical stresses that have not been dealt with previously. It also includes becoming more compassionate and accepting of ourselves, and calls for recognizing the greatness within us. There are many ways to heal ourselves, and most of them are free.

Considered in this light, it is easy to see that healing is always available. However, if we believe the myth that “healing is not available,” and expect it to be true, we may not find the healing that we need. Any belief that blocks our experience of the natural, effortless, free expression of life is detrimental to life and inhibits our healing. Our expectations can block our ability to perceive the many ways in which we can heal. Our expectations influence the outcome of our healing. Use of the word terminal, for example — which generally means that the patient is expected to die — can take away all hope of healing. In actuality, what it really means is that according to the doctor's current body of knowledge, and the results the doctor has seen in other patients with similar conditions, it is anticipated that the patient will die. However, two important limitations apply: “according to the body of knowledge of your doctor” and “the results your doctor has seen in other patients with similar conditions.”

Many individuals who were told they were “terminal” are enjoying full, healthy lives years after their diagnosis. One recent example of such a person is Michael Milken, the former financier and present-day entrepreneur and philanthropist. Diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer, he was given between twelve and eighteen months to live. Milken took up meditation and yoga to reduce stress, became a strict vegetarian, and abandoned his diet of burgers and fries for steamed broccoli and soy shakes. According to a recent profile in Business Week, “Michael has proven his doctors wrong. His cancer is in full remission.”

When we hear about patients with so-called “terminal” conditions, we need to ask some very important questions:

Has the doctor been exposed to other forms of care outside his or her body of knowledge?

Has the doctor studied cases of spontaneous remissions?

Has the doctor attempted to treat the condition according to his or her professional training, but not to treat the patient as a whole person?

Was the treatment of the type that potentially impairs the healing process while attempting to cure the condition, such as chemotherapy or radiation?

Did the physician suggest an “alternative” treatment to promote healing, such as stress reduction, wholesome food, pure water, exercise, nutritional supplementation, and herbs that enhance the function of the immune system?

Was the placebo effect in reverse applied? (I cannot overstate the power of the doctor's gloomy expectations upon a patient who accepts the doctor's story.)

Were musicians called to the bedside of the patient to provide music to inspire, uplift, or help the patient relax?

Were psychological techniques employed to help the patient gain a deeper level of self-understanding?

Was the patient treated in an environment relatively free of electromagnetic radiation?

Was the patient free of the negative programming of television, radio, newspapers, and conversations that reinforce the state of mind that may have contributed to a loss of health in the first place?

Was the patient asked, “Why are you ill?” and allowed to express her views on the subject?

Was the patient asked about what was not working in his life?

Was any focus or attention placed upon factors in the patient's life that bring her joy or gratitude?

Was the patient's sense of humor evaluated or enhanced? Once the prognosis was given, what methods were used to better understand the patient's body, mind, and spirit?

Healing involves the free expression of 1ife, be it through laughing and giggling, deep breathing, or freely moving our body. Although our situation may be challenging, healing invites us to take our circumstances less seriously, and to laugh and have fun. There are countless activities that promote healing: playing or listening to music, making love or simply cuddling, taking a soothing bath, exercising, paying attention to our inner needs, sharing concern toward others, serving others (and being served), praying (and being prayed for by others) are but a few. Breathing clean air, eating good, nutritious food, allowing our mind to focus on new possibilities for our life are deeply healing. Experiencing nature's cycles and our own natural cycles, and feeling grateful for them, also helps us to heal. Finally, by exploring what is sacred to us in our life — be it art, music, chanting, ceremony, literature, poetry, religious scripture, or nature — we enhance our power to heal.

Some of these things, or perhaps none of them, will cure your condition. But healing is always available, no matter what your circumstances- any time, any place, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Healing is available whether you are tired or energized, feeling great or feeling ill, or feeling happy or feeling sad. Healing is available with or without skilled health-care professionals, and with or without medical treatment.

HEALING MAGIC

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Healing is always available to me. The door is wide open for healing to occur in this instant and in the instants to follow. I may choose to be assisted by a health practitioner, or I can initiate the healing process by breathing more fully, touching my body, and allowing it to move freely and express what was formerly repressed. By doing so, my own healing rhythms are set free.

Network Family Wellness Center

Drs. Daniel & Richelle Knowles D.C.

1715 15th street

Boulder, CO 80302

303.998.1000

More Biomedical Myths

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 04:19:09 MST

More Biomedical Myths

According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, the current leading causes of death in the United States are, in order: heart disease, cancer, stroke, and adverse drug reactions. Since nearly one out of every four hospital admissions have been reported to be the result of adverse drug reactions, there is no way of knowing the number of people whose deaths, thought to be caused by disease, may instead have been caused by adverse reactions to a prescribed medication. The same article reported that 180,000 people die each year in American hospitals due to incorrectly prescribed medicines. This figure is currently greater than all crimes and accidents combined.

In spite of billions of dollars spent on cancer research, the incidence of this disease, with all of the expensive, dangerous, and lethal treatments, is higher than ever. Studies have shown that the consumption of meat and animal fats poses a strong risk factor in heart disease and cancer, yet many fast-food restaurants are serving larger hamburgers than ever. Hospitals routinely serve patients suffering from heart disease meat, butter, and milk. Patients with cancer are given gelatin loaded with artificial colors, flavors, and sweeteners that are known to be carcinogenic to laboratory animals.

With all the recent advances in medical treatment, heart attacks, which were a rarity a hundred years ago, are a leading cause of death today. Recent clinical and laboratory studies have seriously questioned the validity of the theory that a blocked coronary artery is the primary cause of a heart attack. The angiogram, an invasive test to evaluate coronary artery blockages, poses significant risks, and has often been discredited. In many cases, bypass surgery is considered unnecessary and dangerous.

Some of the most commonly prescribed anti-hypertensive medications to control high blood pressure are often considered ineffective, and may actually produce an increased risk of heart attack and stroke. A medical study of 291 patients concluded that calcium channel blockers used as anti-hypertensive agents appeared to increase the risk of heart attack, even in otherwise "healthy" hypertensive patients. A compilation of sixteen prior studies had shown that, compared to a placebo, several calcium channel blockers actually tripled a patient's risk of death." An estimated six million Americans take calcium blockers, spending about $3.5 billion on the drugs each year. This is in spite of the data demonstrating that diet, exercise, and meditation significantly assist the body in eliminating not only hypertension, but advanced heart disease as well.

In the United States, flu deaths among adults continue to rise in spite of massive flu inoculation programs. Results of a clinical study presented at the American Geriatrics Society in Atlanta in 1997 suggested that people over sixty-five may not benefit from annual flu shots. According to Dr. Haim Dannengerg of the Hadassah University Hospital in Jerusalem, the study showed that the subjects (whose average age was seventy-two) who had been given repeated flu vaccines had lower antibody levels against three major strains of flu than those who were not vaccinated. Dr. Dannengerg also found, "Our study showed that a decreased immune response to some influenza strains may follow repeated annual vaccinations."

Antibiotics, once considered allopathic medicine's answer to infectious disease, are being viewed as the cause of dangerous superinfections. The use of antibiotics to fight three common respiratory conditions — colds, upper respiratory tract infections, and bronchitis — is now considered ineffective at best. Seventy percent of all infants in the United States are subjected to their first course of antibiotics during the first two hundred days of life.-' Middle ear infections are the most common reason, despite the fact that amoxicillin, the most commonly prescribed antibiotic, was demonstrated to be ineffective for this purpose in most cases. Many physicians still prescribe antibiotics for these illnesses despite evidence that they do little or nothing to treat the problems.

An editorial published in the Journal of the American Medical Association stated: "Unrealistic patient expectations coupled with insufficient time to discuss with patients why an antibiotic is not needed" are the major reasons why physicians over prescribe antibiotic drugs when they know the drugs will be ineffective and make the patients prone to superinfections. The gospel of modern medicine that inflated the importance of prescription drugs and surgery in the restoration and maintenance of health is beginning to change, but the change will not be easy. The physician, who is the quasi-ecclesiastic representative of the old story, must now communicate a new story with the "congregation," or patients. Communicating a change in the old myth by telling patients that such drugs may not be necessary is not an easy task without referring to (and questioning) the underlying mythology itself. The doctor must not only accept the changing roles between doctor and patient, and treatment and healing, but also assume a greater role as storyteller.

At the core of the biomedical approach to curing is fear. Delaying or refusing treatment within the medical mythos can be likened to not accepting the edict of a high priest or not taking the sacrament of the Church a few hundred years ago. Fear motivates us to adhere to the story that preaches hope for the individual only through the sanctioned rituals of the dominant medical culture. Healing modalities with a different story that don't follow the exact procedures of the dominant "church of medicine" are attacked and dismissed without objective evaluation. Excommunication is never pleasant. As we have seen in cases where individuals challenge cultural mythologies, punishment may be severe for those who are not "of the faith" or who convert to other beliefs regarding the philosophy of health and healing.

Those who question popular applications of the allopathic model are often met with bigotry, ignorance, and attack. Parents who reject the medical story, and refuse what they consider potentially dangerous vaccinations or medical treatment for their children, are subject to ridicule and even criminal prosecution as child abusers. A doctor who fails to recommend the treatment of choice for a serious disease, regardless of its safety or effectiveness, can lose her license, face heavy fines, and even risk a jail sentence.

Even when evidence is published in respected medical journals documenting the dangers of certain drugs and procedures, the unquestioned and almost religious belief in the biomedical model still rules the decision-making process among doctors and patients alike. If the above findings applied to practitioners of any other healing art, including chiropractors, acupuncturists, or herbalists, their professions would have been eliminated, their proponents ridiculed or thrown in jail, and their schools closed by order of the courts. Instead, the medical establishment today enjoys incredible prestige. Philanthropists donate billions of dollars for medical research, construction of hospitals, and other curing establishments. Even when it is proven that certain drugs or procedures never worked or no longer work, new treatments, based on the old biomedical story, are generated every day.

Other than advancements in repair or trauma surgery (which are amazing in their ability to save lives and restore the quality of life), conventional medicine in America probably kills more people each year through its procedures, treatments, and story than almost any other cause. The majority of people who read this will still resort to the same medical institutions for care; others will question the system. I suggest, instead, that we question the underlying myths that generate and empower the prevailing medical culture. I contend that unless we evaluate the myths that control our lives, we will often seek the same choices we have been trained to choose, even if these choices are killing us.

NetworkFamily Wellness Center

Drs. Daniel & Richelle Knowles, D.C.

1715 15thstreet

Boulder, CO 80302

303.998.1000

Chiropractic Chocolate for a Healthy Heart

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 05:35:52 MST

Chiropractic & Chocolate for a Healthy Heartplanetc1.com-news@8:21 am PSTby Michael Dorausch, DC

The month of January is coming to a close and February is just around the corner. People will soon stop greeting each other by saying "happy new year." It won't be long before we move on to our next holiday greeting, hearing people say... "Happy Valentine's Day."

Valentine's Day, the day of the heart, is about romance and flowers and chocolate. Yum yum yum, gotta love that chocolate. We'll probably be reminded numerous times of recent studies claiming that consuming dark chocolate may cut heart disease. You may notice that studies such as these tend to appear in the news right about the time chocolate sales are picking up. That's fine, pick up some chocolate for your chiropractor and remind them that studies show its good for the heart.

Chiropractic is also good for the heart, by way of the nervous system, and the removal of spinal stress. When we talk about the heart most people think about blood, and the job the heart does pumping that blood throughout the body. But what about the connection between the brain and the heart, we don't hear as much information about that.

Like every organ in the body, the heart is controlled by the nervous system. There is a nerve that runs from the lower part of your brain (the brainstem) down to your heart. This nerve is called the vagus nerve or the pneumogastric nerve (cranial nerve X). It is the only nerve in your brain that extends down through your neck and into your abdominal region. You certainly don't want to have spinal stress anywhere in your neck, if anything, it just doesn't feel good. That annoying and tender bump you can feel when you press your thumb into the side of your neck just below your ears is a fairly good sign your suffering from spinal stress. Who wants to go around choking off the flow of life energy your vagus nerve is trying to bring to your heart and stomach? That's just not good.

The vagus nerve is not just a simple wire that creates a connection between the brain and the heart, its functions are pretty complex. We won't get into parasympathetic innervation, innervation of the hearts sinoatrial node, the different nuclei associated with the vagus nerve, or discoveries related to the vagus nerve and the secretion of neurotransmitters, such as acetylcholine. Just know that the vagus nerve performs a pretty valuable function in the human body.

Some drugs will affect the function of the vagus nerve. Depending on the drug, they can affect the nerve at the level of the heart, gastrointestinal tract, or other organs. Drugs such as Anticholinergics may even cause constipation, which also involves the vagus nerve. No one wants to be constipated on Valentine's Day, and still have that annoying bump on the side of your neck just below the base of your skull.

Would you believe that medical doctors use to cut the vagus nerve out of the body for treating things such as peptic ulcers? You'd think maybe they would have been doing that a long long time ago, in the dark ages of medicine, but the procedure was popular up until the mid-1990s as a treatment for peptic ulcers. The procedure was called a vagotomy and it became obsolete after was discovered that Helicobacter pylori, a microorganism that can thrive in the highly acidic environment of the stomach, was responsible for most peptic ulcers. It makes you wonder how many other surgical procedures will become obsolete as we continue to discover new things about the human body.

I'm not into cutting nerves and taking drugs that make me constipated, I'd rather have my body function naturally, at its highest potential. That's where chiropractic comes in.

This Valentine's Day, don't lose your nerves. Even if you don't have that tender bump on your neck, it may be a good time to go pay a visit to your local chiropractor. They will certainly be glad to see you, especially if you're bringing chocolate!

Children and Chiropractic The Network Model

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 05:11:41 MST

CHILDREN AND CHIROPRACTIC

THE NETWORK MODEL

By Donald Epstein, D.C. and Jackie Knowles, D.C.

Aware parents search for means to improve their children’s concept of self. Early in childhood the patterns that one carries throughout a lifetime develop. In the process of parenting we seek to initiate the process by which our children can learn to discard outworn, outgrown ties to objects and events. We hope that in our parenting we have not taught our children to judge too much, but have taught them gentle discernment of right and wrong.

Western psychology states that all of our psychological ills occur out of a poorly defined sense of self. According lo Brunner the self that we consider to be “me” that is real and substantial is developed by selective and imaginative remembering of past encounters with objects arid events in our world.

In the development of self one must pass through a hierarchy or a ladder, a progression of stages or phases. One cannot move on to a next phase or stage until he or she has successfully negotiated the previous step.

Traditionally psychologists have attempted to find out where an individual had become stuck or where in their development an individual phase was incomplete or not fully developed. Then a process of completion or a purging of the noxious event or memory was initiated.

Children pattern their body-mind connections after those who they model. They will learn to hold their neck forward and shoulders tense when in confrontation or fear in the same fashion their parents do. We believe that they observe the energy flow in their parents and the energy blockages (before they learn, that they can’t do that) and emulate in their own body-mind. Our children model after us how to react or respond to our environment. It appears that our children learn the judgments we make with our body, our face, and our spine as they learn to deal with life in a similar fashion as mommy and daddy.

Before children pass through the stage of understanding language, they feel what we are about, what we fear, and what we love. It seems that they watch and know what we feel about the world, at a core level. They may recreate our flows and blockages, as we have developed in us by learning to redirect their energy and emotions in the same way that we do.

Most diseases and syndromes, and most illnesses, are not real entities per see. Rather than being inherited, most are learned behavior patterns of the body-mind. What children get from their parents or modeling figures is a learned means of dealing with the world and learned postural patterns.

Disease, illness and the very way we view the world are related as a function of the program within us. We teach our children to have the same type of judgments and experiences, including diseases, as did our ancestors. This begins at the developmental stage prior to language, and is compounded by the words we speak.

These learned mechanisms of the function are called dominant patterns. The nervous system reacts so stimuli such as pollen, food, bacteria, viruses, or new situations based upon its dominant patterns. Using these encounters a developmental matrix is formed from which our sense of self evolves. Whether one learns to trust one’s inner power, or react with fear to new situations, is dependent on patterns incorporated within this matrix.

Even the most significant diseases are a learned neurological response anchored at a somatic level(s). Events that we have not fully recovered from that remain in our systems are added to our matrices. They create filters though which we interpret life. When the nervous system becomes locked in the memory of an old physical, mental, spiritual, or chemical trauma it still acts as if it is occurring. A person is unable to perceive current events independently from the filter of past events. This state is associated with the spinal system (the switchboard of reality) becoming fixed or locked, or rigid, as it “holds” on to information no longer present from the environment.

Our reality is produced as an effect of such redirected energy. This may manifest as physical, or mental, or emotional distortions, dis-ease, and if the growth does not develop beyond the pattern, eventually disease itself.

The sense of self is synthesized by selective and imaginative remembering of past encounters stored within the developmental matrix. The development of self is an inside job.

Spinal subluxations are interferences that occur in the nervous system that limit our ability to progress past a particular trauma or event, or redirected energy. This interference is sometimes projected into our concepts of future.

Network Chiropractic is based upon classification and adjustment of spinal subluxations. Very often, just a gentle touch contact is all that is needed to release the “spinal magnetic tape” and to release the learned patterns that are inconsistent with our fluent growth and development. The result of this is a natural clearing of that which is not us.

The earlier in life a child has the opportunity to receive these adjustive clearings of the nerve system, the earlier in life the judgments, the traumas, and the blocked energy flows that our children have learned can be released. Unbound, they may develop a healthier sense of self.

Becoming clear, in the now moment, spinally unrestricted, happy and joyful is the beginning of a healthy development of self affecting every perception and experience throughout your child’s lifetime.

The Truth About Bottled Water

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 05:00:34 MST

“The Truth About Bottled Water!”

This just in from Men’s Health Magazine:Imagine you’ve just been given a choice: You have to drink from one of two containers. One container is a cup from your own kitchen, and it contains a product that has passed strict state, federal and local guidelines for cleanliness and quality. Oh, and it’s free. The second container comes from a manufacturing plant somewhere, and its contents—while seemingly identical to your first choice—have not been subjected to the same strict national and local standards. It costs approximately four times more than gasoline. These products both look and taste nearly identical. Which do you choose? If you chose beverage A, congratulations: You just saved yourself a whole lot of money, and, perhaps, even contaminants, too. But if you picked beverage B, then you’ll be spending hundreds of unnecessary dollars on bottled water this year. Sure, bottled water is convenient, trendy, and may well be just as pure as what comes out of your tap. But it’s hardly a smart investment for your pocketbook, your body or our planet. You may actually be drinking tap water. Case in point: Dasani, a Coca-Cola product. Despite its exotic-sounding name, Dasani is simply purified tap water that’s had minerals added back in. For example, if your Dasani water was bottled at the Coca-Cola Bottling Company in Philadelphia, you’re drinking Philly tap water. But it’s not the only brand of water that relies on city pipes to provide its product. About 25 percent of all bottled water is taken from municipal water sources, including Pepsi’s Aquafina. Bottled water isn’t always pure. Scan the labels of the leading brands and you see variations on the words “pure” and “natural” and “pristine” over and over again.

And when a Cornell University MARKETING class studied consumer perceptions of bottled water, they found that people thought it was cleaner, with less bacteria. But that may not actually be true.

For example, in a 4-year review that included the testing of 1,000 bottles of water, the Natural Resources Defense Council—one the country’s most ardent environmental crusaders—found that “about 22 percent of the brands we tested contained, in at least one sample, chemical contaminants at levels ABOVE strict state health limits.”

It’s not clear where the plastic container ends and the drink begins. Turns out, when certain plastics are heated at a high temperature, chemicals from the plastics may leach into container’s contents.

So there’s been a flurry of speculation recently as to whether the amounts of these chemicals are actually harmful, and whether this is even a concern when it comes to water bottles—which aren’t likely to be placed in boiling water or even a microwave. While the jury is still out on realistic health ramifications, it seems that, yes, small amounts of chemicals from PET water bottles such as antimony—a semi-metal that’s thought to be toxic in large doses—can accumulate the longer bottled water is stored in a hot environment.

Which, of course, is probably a good reason to avoid storing bottled water in your garage for six months—or better yet, to just reach for tap instead. Our country’s high demand for oil isn’t just due to long commutes. Most water bottles are composed of a plastic called polyethylene terepthalate (PET).

Now, to make PET, you need crude oil. Specifically, 17 million barrels of oil are used in the production of PET water bottles ever year, estimate University of Louisville scientists.

No wonder the per ounce cost of bottled water rivals that of gasoline. What’s more, 86 percent of 30 billion PET water bottles sold annually are tossed in the trash, instead of being recycled, according to data from the Container Recycling Institute.

That’s a lot of waste—waste that will outlive you, your children, and your children’s children.

You see, PET bottles take 400 to 1000 years to degrade. Which begs the question: If our current rate of consumption continues, where will we put all of this discarded plastic?

If you want to make a difference in your health, get pH balanced alkaline water. It’s FREE to anyone at this office, if you’re a patient. If you’re not, the cost is minimal. $3.50/gallon, which is a ton cheaper than what you’re paying for bottled water.

You can get your pH balanced water between the hours of 11 and 12, Monday thru Thursday and please bring a bottle made of glass for storage purposes. If you do not have access to a bottle, buy some Kerr glass quart containers for canning from Walmart or a similar outlet.

You can also use a plastic container with a one in a triangle. You can find this on the bottom of the container if you look closely.

The Secrets Out Its the Water

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 04:52:28 MST

Dear Friend,

Here’s something I’ll be you didn’t know. Your body needs Alkaline Antioxidant Water.

Why?

Because this special pH balanced alkaline water eliminates pathogens and infections, plus a host of other things.

People who drink this special pH water have had changes like …no more gout, blood sugar that was normal, and even digestive problems that were overcome…just by drinking this pH balanced alkaline water.

It’s amazing.

Drinking this special pH balanced alkaline water a day will help you to neutralize your body’s acidity and over time will help you to restore your body’s buffering ability and actually slow down the aging process.

Alkaline water should be used by everyone. It’s especially helpful when conditions of over acidity develop, such as when you have a cold, flu or bronchitis.

Like vitamins C, E, and beta carotene, alkaline water acts as an antioxidant because of it’s EXCESS supply of FREE electrons. This helps your body FIGHT against the development of heart disease, strokes, immune dysfunctions and other ailments.

Drinking this pH alkaline balanced water also helps significantly ease back and joint pain for up to 80% of sufferers.

It’s that amazing.

Benefits Alkaline Water for an Enhanced Life

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 04:47:48 MST

DRINK ALKALINE WATER FOR AN ENHANCED LIFE

CUTTING-EDGE WATER IONIZATION TECHNOLOGY PROVIDES…

ANTIOXIDANT:

Like drinking a glass of anti-oxidants. Ionized/Alkalized/Oxygenated/Super-Hydrating (fine-filtered) water delivers a massive amount of negatively charged electrons, to cling to & neutralize the free-radicals causing daily damage & progressive aging within your body. (Free radicals are constantly bombarding us - from poor diet, stress, pollution, chemicals, medications, etc.)

ALKALINITY/PH:

In today’s world, everybody is too acidic, and needs to alkalize. All the “diseases of aging” – from cancer, to chronic fatigue, to the skin losing elasticity – occur & snowball within an acidic body. Ionized water restores alkalinity and flushes acidic toxins from the body, leaving the blood sparkling clean & able to transport critical nutrients to the cells.

Disease cannot thrive in an alkaline environment. Acidic blood is filled with yeasts, molds, bacteria, and the prolific wastes they produce. Alkaline blood is clean & clear – nothing there but your healthy cells. Water from the ionizer filter is 100’s of times more alkaline than even the freshest spring water. (1000’s of times more so than tap or bottled water.)

Excess body weight naturally peels off as acids are released from the body. The brain begins to sparkle and the body is able to heal problem conditions.

OXYGEN:

Cells deficient in oxygen start to turn cancerous. (German biochemist Dr. Warback won the Nobel prize for proving this theory.) Ionized water delivers twice as much oxygen to your cells as tap or bottled water. Think of the jogger vs. the couch potato – this water is bringing your cells a flood of fresh oxygen just by drinking a glass.

HYDRATION:

Smaller molecule size makes water up to 6x more absorbable – “wetter water” easily penetrates your cells, bringing a continual flood of hydration & renewal. The turnover of “fresh water in & waste out” becomes constant. Cells begin to work at peak performance. Foggy thinking, joint pain, constipation & digestive issues begin to clear. Takes your body from a stagnant “polluted lake” to one that is sparkling & “fed by glacial streams”.

OTHER FEATURES:

Superior water filtration options (including super-fine filtration used at the level of dialysis). Customizable filtration according to one’s unique water properties.

Begin Feeling Better NOW

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 04:21:03 MST

Want to feel young again? Want to be able to do the things you used to do, just doing one simple thing? Here are just a few things that drinking pH water on a regular basis can help.

Boost energy and relieve occasional fatigue

Support healthy immunity

Slow premature aging

Ease occasional constipation

Support your weight loss program

Promote healthy heart function

Support healthy breathing

Promote healthy skin

Improve cognitive & memory function

Promote overall good health and well-being

A Lack of pH Balance Can Negatively Impact Your Body

According to the Journal of Longevity, poor health is linked to acid overload. That's why it's important to regulate your ‘delicate’ pH balance. The closer to 7.39 (neutral) you are, the healthier you'll be. However, if your pH is too acidic, long-term, you will most likely start to experience things like:

Sapped energy and stamina

Weakened heart and circulation

Decreased sexual desire and performance

Accelerated aging

Breathing problems

Irregular bowels

Joint problems

Soreness in your muscles or minor muscle pain

Recent studies have shown that too much acid decreases your body's ability to absorb vitamins, minerals, and nutrients. Why? Acid overload wrecks your enzymes so nothing can dissolve completely. This lack of pH balance can lead to health problems.

Restore Your pH Balance

With Alkaline pH Water

Alkaline water is a natural way to help balance your body's tissue pH. 100% safe and effective, this powerful water helps to restore your body to a healthy, alkaline state. You can help maintain healthy acid levels without becoming a vegetarian and eating produce by the bushel to achieve optimum pH balance.

Proper pH balance has been recognized by dozens of scientific journals to be the key to long-term health. With Alkaline pH water, like the type offered at this office, you get the purest forms of natural minerals, synergistically blended at highly effective doses for a healthier pH balance.

PH Definitely Affects Your Life And Disease

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:31:50 MST

“PH Definitely Affects Your Life And Disease.”

Anything living depends on a certain environment in order to not only survive, but to grow and thrive. One of the most important factors that impacts environment is pH… the balance between acid elements and alkaline elements.

Let’s take a look at how pH affects life.

Plants need the soil that they live in to have an optimal pH. If the pH is off a little bit, growth will not be optimal. If it’s off by a lot, the plant will literally DIE.

Just like plants, fish require an optimal environment to live in. For example, the water that fish swim around in and the coral reefs that are so vitally important to our entire ecosystem must be properly pH balanced and regulated in order for live to happen. Too much acid throws off balance and destroys life.

As a matter of fact, EVERYTHING in life…MUST have a properly pH balanced environment in the inside AND the outside of it – ‘in order to live’. Your body is no different. If you want to experience a VIBRANT body and a VIBRANT life, you need to create a vibrant environment on the inside of your body…and that starts with the right pH. Inner balance…pH balance…will create the outer balance you desire. In terms of your body, the optimal pH for your blood and fluids that make up over 70% of your body weight is roughly 7.37. That means a pH that’s slightly alkaline. If your body becomes acidic, which is like a 6, problems begin. If it becomes chronically acidic, you now have the type of environment that breeds a whole host of health problems. Research shows a direct correlation between excess acidity and obesity, diabetes, arthritis, acid reflux, cholitis, IBS, fibromyalgia, fatigue, and on and on. So, the first question you might have is…”OK, how do I know what the pH of my body is?” The answer is simple… Test. Come to the office so we can test Your pH! I can’t emphasize this enough… the regulation of your pH is as important to your health as the regulation of temperature is. If you had a fever of 101 and your body is out of its REQUIRED temperature range of 98 – 99 degrees, you’d go take care of THAT before you worried about losing those extra pounds…right? pH is no different. If you’re too acidic, NOTHING in your body is going to work right…So, get your pH checked now!

Biomedical Myths

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 23:29:48 MST

Biomedical Myths

Excerpted from healing Myths Healing Magic, Donald Epstein, D.C.

Centuries ago, evil spirits were widely believed to be the cause of disease. Dressed in ceremonial garb, the medicine men and women of the time would chant, pray, dance. and perform rituals to drive away the offending spirits. This often required that the patient be brought close to death through procedures like burning and bloodletting. At the delicate juncture between life and death, the invading entity would be expected to leave the body. Leeches, roots, herbs, ground-up animal parts, and other medicinal compounds were frequently used in performing this dramatic event.

Toward the end of the nineteenth century, the allopathic physician began to take on the ancient role of ceremonial healer, especially in the United States. Natural healers, particularly those involved in herbal medicine and homeopathy, were gradually replaced by allopathic physicians. The practice of medicine was shifting from an art form, involving application of natural remedies, into a “science.” Instead of people being victimized by evil spirits that destroyed their health, bacteria became the villain. By the 1950s, bacteria lost its status as the evil offender, and viruses became the primary cause of disease. Viruses then became less popular, and fault DNA was blamed for victimizing people with poor health and disease.

Today, although the methods have changed, the basic myths remain the same. Both the philosophy and practice of modern medicine represent the epitome of cultural surrender to the Tree of Knowledge. Present-day teaching hospitals have become the successors to ancient ritualistic practices, where both humans and laboratory animals have been sacrificed in the name of medical progress. The doctor’s intuitive sense of the patient, achieved by listening to the patient’s heart, evaluating the pulse, and taking a detailed personal history, has been replaced by an impersonal, mechanistic application of science. The physician of the past customarily made house calls and was well acquainted with both the patient and the patient’s entire family. The family doctor understood the family’s dynamics, and developed a sense of intimacy with his patients.

Like house calls, listening to the patient’s heart is a diagnostic tool that may soon be on of the past. Use of a stethoscope and palpating for the pulse is not as highly regarded as procedures like ultrasonic testing or electrocardiograms. Nor is either of these procedures as highly revered as those involving a hospital stay and the injection of a toxic dye into the bloodstream. Modern medicine no longer even pretends to “listen to the heart” of the patient. The stethoscope is a dying art form that is no longer a part of the core curricula of most medical schools; it has been replaced by the objectivity of technology.

The physicians’ intuitive sense of evaluation is being replaced by complex, expensive, and even dangerous testing procedures. Consistent with the old myth, if the test fulfills these criteria, the greater the sacrifice the patient has made at the altar of medicine, and the greater the chances of having the God of Medicine observe her plight and act in her favor. With test results in hand, the physician can then condemn the patient with a threatening, or even “terminal,” diagnosis. Like the medicine men and women of yesterday, the modern physician can place us in purgatory until further tests are done, or absolve us through an often-dangerous treatment, like surgery, radiation, or chemotherapy.

If we survive the treatment, we often feel as though we have passed through the gates of hell and won a war against the Devil himself. If our condition should improve, it is became of the ritual treatment, and if we succumb to the evil disease, it is because the power of the demon was greater than the power of the God of Medicine. If we are cured, all the physical, emotional, and financial sacrifices involved in treating the evil condition are worth our suffering.

Without question, millions of people have been helped or “saved” be allopathic treatments. The prevailing biomedical myths have led to wonderful discoveries about the pathological process, the mechanical repair of tissues, and the nature and function of different parts of the body. Allopathy has also taught us about the frailties of the human body and its physical and psychological limits. This section on allopathic medicine is not meant to criticize allopathic physicians, their intentions, or their methods. Instead, I will be questioning the myths upon with modern medicine is based.

Challenging the Biomedical Myth

Biomedical theory and practice are heavily influenced by and inseparable from our culture. Therefore, in this section we find ourselves face-to-face with many of the same stories that underlie our social myths. According to the prevailing biomedical myths, the human body cannot be trusted. Disease is considered practically inevitable, and degeneration is regarded as natural. Doing something to treat an illness is almost always better than doing nothing at all, even in the vast majority of illness is self-limiting. Within the biomedical culture, the following statements are also assumed or implied to be true:

– Science and medicine will liberate us from our natural inclination to be ill.

– The more money spent on research to study disease or other “evils” affecting the bodymind, the healthier people will be.

– Alternative methods of healing work because of the patient’s believe in them, yet allopathic medicine works because it is “scientific.”

– – People are basically foolish, ignorant and incapable of making effective choices in life; thus we need an educated to help us survive in this hostile world we live in.

– There must be a physical cause for every ailment.

– To understand disease is to understand health.

– Health is the absence of symptoms, pain, and abnormal laboratory tests.

– Pregnancy, childbirth, and aging are medical conditions,

– The highest level of health for a patient involves never being disturbed by any symptom or condition of the body that he does not like.

– Health is achieved by declaring war on the aberrant parts.

– External factors that promote disease need to be controlled or eliminated.

Some prevailing views of modern medicine were recently questioned by Bernard Lown, M.D., Chairman of the Lown Cardiovascular Research Foundation and Thomas B. Graboys, M.D., Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. In a letter published in The New Yorker. They wrote:

We believe that the modern medical model has become increasingly reductionist: human beings are seen as repositories of malfunctioning organs that need repair. This view results in an onslaught of tests and assaultive procedures that purport to give definite answers in a field fraught with uncertainty. Doctors often take refuge behind technology because it is easier and less time-consuming than talking with a complex human being who is their patient.

What Kind of Body Are We Going to Have Next Year

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 07:39:56 MST

By Arno Burnier, D.C.

Contrary to popular belief, our physical body is never older than seven years! This is due to the fact that the body recreates itself constantly. Tissue cells die and are replaced by new ones. Every second we lose about three-and-a-half million red blood cells. There is nothing to worry about though, for another three-and-a-half million are born to replace the old ones. Ninety-eight percent of the atoms present in our body today will be gone within one year and replaced by new ones. The body is more like a river of constantly renewed tissues rather than a frozen sculpture of decaying matter.

Skin cells live for seven days, heart cells for ninety days, while bone cells have a thirty-six month life span. There is a different life expectancy for every type of tissue cell depending on its function and location in the body. Life energy, the creative force, is constantly at work recreating our tissues and organs. Life energy or ‘human electricity’ travels via the nerve system to reach every single tissue cell in the body.

When nerves are compressed or irritated, there is a loss of life, abnormal function results and the reproduction cycle of cells is altered. We either have a slower rate of reproduction which is degeneration or decay, or we have a faster rate of turnover which is uncontrolled growth or tumors.

The question we must all ask ourselves is, what kind of body are we going to have next year? Is it going to be a healthier one or a sicker one? Is it going to replace itself normally or abnormally? Is it going to express more ease or dis-ease? If already in a state of degeneration and decay, is it going to keep going downhill, or is it going to rebuild itself? If a state of dis-ease exists, are we going to give our body the potential to heal itself, or are we going to allow it to express more dis-ease?

Chiropractic is special in that it utilizes the adjusting of vertebral (spinal) subluxations or blockages that interfere with life force expression. The result is a body that has the potential to reproduce itself normally and recover by healing itself.

Healing is creation, and the creative spark of life. Consistent chiropractic adjustments release life force by keeping the life channels open and free of subluxations. In time the body can recover and express better health

In seven years we will have a brand new body, but what kind is it going to be?

Back Pain Info Letter

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 07:26:58 MST

JUST RELEASED: Experienced Back Pain Doctor Comes Forward and Debunks Myths About Back Pain, Exposing The Shocking Truth Behind A Natural Path to Back Pain Relief...

"Forget What You’ve Been Told About Back Pain Relief: You Can Feel Better (and Sooner!) ...Without Unnecessary Drugs Or Surgery!!"

Friday, June 3rd, 9:43 am

Dear Back Pain Sufferer,

I write to you today with great news. If you’re tired of living with nagging or even debilitating back pain, if you're looking for a way to relieve your back pain without needing potentially dangerous surgery or drugs, and if you’re tired of the experts taking their best guess about what is causing your pain...you're going to love what I have for you in this Special Report! Here’s what you have to look forward to:

1. The secrets to relieving your back pain without having to resort to potentially dangerous drugs, surgery, or “miracle cures”.

2. The Top 4 Myths Surrounding Back Pain Relief: You’ll learn the surprising truth about back pain, why so many pain sufferers are led in the wrong direction, and how you can start seeking the right kind of pain relief today!

3. The one step you can take NOW to start seeking relief from your back pain once and for all.

As you can see, you have a lot to look forward to in this Special Report, and let me start by asking you a basic question. “Are you among the countless back pain sufferers, who are a bit skeptical about the promises they’ve heard regarding back pain relief?” Chances are, this is true and from my experience, you have every right to be a skeptic!

Back pain is serious business and, if you’re like most sufferers, you may feel you’ve done everything you can, to no avail. You’ve seen a doctor (or even a specialist!), you’ve tried pain medication or other remedies, you’ve followed doctor’s orders, and you’ve heard lots of different opinions about what MIGHT be causing your back pain. All the while, the pain still lingers!

Sound familiar?? If you’re living with back pain and are frustrated with the lack of information and results you’ve received to date, things are about to change. You may be shocked to see how simple it may be to finally heal, fix, and relieve the back pain you’re living with AND the cause behind it!

“Yes, back pain relief is about more than just the pain itself. You need to fix what’s CAUSING your pain too!”

First, before you go any further, please allow me to introduce myself...my name is Dr. Daniel Knowles. Plain and simple, I help people that suffer from back pain. I don’t run a general practice, in which I happen to come across patients who are experiencing back pain. Helping people just like you relieve back pain, once and for all, is what I do and have been doing exclusively for over a decade.

Every day, I am helping people in your exact, painful situation. I take pride in the fact that people come to my office each day with all types and causes of back pain, and within a short period of time, are able to enjoy a pain free lifestyle once again. I’m bound by my oath as a doctor to be honest and tell you that this doesn't happen with everyone. Sometimes it takes more time, and perhaps even a more significant procedure before the pain is totally gone.

Through the years, I’ve had the great fortune to see the tremendous impact our team is making in the lives of so many people who come to see us. Some of our patients come to us, having endured both back pain and the disappointment of failed remedies they’ve tried before, for a long time. Others come in before the pain becomes more severe (which is a great thing to do, by the way), but in some way, they are all suffering and sometimes severely so. Perhaps, this is the situation you’re in right now.

I’ve seen the damage that back pain can cause. It can reduce your quality of life, stop you from doing activities you’ve always enjoyed, all in addition to the physical pain you feel every day. I know you’re not just one to sit back and deal with the pain, and maybe what you’ve tried before either hasn’t worked, or only offered temporary relief. I know this to be true, because it has been so for so many of my other patients.

I know you’re sick and tired of back pain and I would like you toread the next statement very carefully, BEFORE GOING ANY FURTHER IN THIS SPECIAL REPORT!!

"Much of What You’ve Ever Heard About Relieving Back Pain is Myth ...You Deserve Better and May Be Able To Feel Relief (and Relief That You Can Trust) In A Short Period Of Time!"

Statistics show that 80% of all people experience some sort of back pain in their lifetime. This may be of little consolation, especially if you're in severe pain and you've been suffering this way for months or even years. My point is not to suggest that you’re a part of an unfortunate statistic, but rather to help steer you to a better solution than what most back pain sufferers seek.

What do you think most people do when their back hurts? You guessed it…they try over rest and over the counter medications first. If that doesn’t help, they go see their doctor, and that’s where this story takes an unfortunate turn.

Don’t get me wrong, here. As a doctor myself, I’m not here to throw darts at other members of my profession. That said, I also know that most of the doctors who people with back pain go to see (maybe this is something you’ve done too) are not back pain specialists. They do what most doctors would ethically do…make a good faith effort diagnosis, and then prescribe some combination of rest and perhaps more potent medication to help with the pain.

Does this scenario sound familiar? If so, you were probably at first thrilled that you had a doctor’s opinion guiding your pursuit of back pain relief. You had no reason to think the diagnosis or the prescribed treatments might not work, did you? Weeks or months later, however, the pain was still there or maybe even worse.

This time, perhaps you sought the help of a specialist or were even considering the possibility of surgery. Why? Because it was the logical next step, right? When simple solutions don’t work, then the problem must be more severe and require a more elaborate solution. Right? Not necessarily. If this is the path that you’ve followed to date, enduring pain while following weird solutions or diagnosis some doctors, friends or even so called specialists have told you, you are ready for something different.

I created this Special Report to show you how you may not have to suffer anymore. Perhaps you’re thinking ‘I’ve been down this road before.’ Just another expert ready to offer their best guess as to what is really wrong. I get it and your skepticism is understandably fueled by the simple fact that you’re still in pain. You want something different, and you want a solution that actually works for a change.

I know right now your back is probably hurting and the last thing you want to hear right now is anything OTHER THAN specific ways you can quickly and finally stop the pain and suffering you’ve been enduring.

What you need is a doctor that knows all about back pain. I do one thing in my practice, and that one thing is to help people with back pain, just like the pain that is doing its best to affect your life every day. I know what it’s like, because I see your pain on the faces of my patients each and every day. I have the training and experience to solve your back problem, and I have the guts to tell you honestly how you may be able to relieve your back pain very soon.

Coming to see me and my staff may not be the answer for you and, even if you do nothing more than read this report, the information I have to share with you could save you years of unnecessary pain and suffering. Why? Because I know what causes back pain, not just the token ways to treat it that you’ve probably already tried. Drugs do little more than just mask pain, and do nothing to treat the cause. Surgery is a last resort, a far cry from what you’ll hear from other doctors, who only know how to solve their patients’ problems with a scalpel!

“Why Surgery is Rarely the Answer for Back Pain”

Despite all the research you may have done yourself, and despite the extensive education held by those who may be recommending surgery as an option, it still makes little sense in most back pain cases. 90% or more of back pain surgeries are unnecessary and/or ineffective, and they may do more harm than good in the long run. Millions of dollars are spent each year on back-related procedures, and millions more are lost due to prolonged recoveries and work absences. All this for a type of procedure that is MAYBE has a 10% chance of really fixing the problem?

What you need to understand is that the back and spine are on the front lines of taking the physical toll of being a living breathing human body. Sometimes, surgery is a necessary step, but it is risky, and can be permanently debilitating if it fails to correct the problem or, worse yet, convinces you that it does work and causes you to do something that causes even more harm to your back.

In the vast majority of cases, some sort of dietary, nutritional, or physical causes are at the root of back pain. It could be due to carrying around excessive weight, not getting enough key nutrients, or simply too much of a motion or movement that is harmful to the body. Few of these causes would warrant surgery, and nearly all are treatable without even coming near an operating room. Even if it’s brutally honest, you deserve to know the truth about your back pain, especially if means not having to agree to a risky, costly, and likely ineffective surgery.

"Why Do People Blindly Take Medication, or Have Surgery Even When They've Seen And Heard About The Poor Results?

This is such a great question, and the answer to it captures why so many people are experiencing back pain when they don’t need to be. The short answer is “DESPERATION!” When all else fails, there seems to be no other choice! Human nature is such that people will go to much greater lengths to avoid pain than they would to seek something pleasurable. In short, put someone in enough pain, and they’ll do most anything to make it go away!

Shouldn’t something as serious as hard-core pain medication or surgery be only the lastoption you’d consider for pain? Seemingly so, but if you’re desperate enough, anything sounds better than more pain, right? What’s to stop you if your doctor is the one who’s the one suggesting these extreme measures as the proper course of action? If the doctor is suggesting it, and the pain is too much to endure any more, even something you’d naturally dismiss will seem like the best thing to do.

After reading the rest of this Special Report and in doing so learning that there is a better path to complete back pain relief, you will no longer have to consider getting surgery or dangerous drugs as being the only courses of action you have left. You do have a better path to follow, and it starts with really knowing why you are in pain to begin with. It doesn’t have to involve invasive procedures or just doing what you can to take the edge off the pain, over and over again.

The right solution also doesn’t have to mean continuing to just “grin and bear it”, watching the world pass by while you simply endure discomfort. Do you want to take the risk that the procedure that’s been proposed to you, along with its cost, time away from work, and greater likelihood of long-term complications is the right choice? Do you want to rely upon drugs to make life bearable?

In the great majority of back pain cases just like yours, the solution is much easier and with much less risk. The only way to know for sure is to trust your gut, trust the troubling facts, and seek someone who can actually help you!

"Below Are The Top 4 Myths That Disguise The Truth About Back Pain"

Yes, I promised you I would expose the myths that you’ve probably heard about back pain AND back pain relief. There is a simpler, and safer way to seeking the relief you deserve, and first you need to know the truth!

Myth #1: Chronic or severe back pain is a problem that requires surgery to fix. WRONG!!

Surgery is only a last resort, if you know all the different causes of back pain. The idea of surgery is appealing because people who have had severe or long-term back pain come to believe that only a significant procedure can possibly help. Surgery is an understandable yet desperate act to get rid of the pain, and this is made worse when their trusted doctors are the ones suggesting it as a course of action. It doesn’t have to be this way!

The worst part is the trust that is placed upon a surgical procedure. ‘If I have surgery, that will definitely fix my problem!’ This logic, absent a proper treatment of the true underlying cause of back pain, can be the most cruel of illusions. Just when you think the problem is finally solved, you come to realize that it was never solved in the first place.

In some rare cases, surgery may be necessary. Just know that your back pain can be caused by a variety of causes, very few of which actually “require” surgery. You need someone to help you discover the true cause of your pain, and who will rightfully only recommend surgery if it is indeed a last resort. You deserve to start feeling like yourself again, pain free and living life to the fullest, and you deserve the best (and simplest) pathway to this outcome.

Myth #2: Back pain can be permanently relieved with the right drugs. WRONG!!

I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest that nearly all of you reading this Special Report know that pain medication is not the best answer to your back pain. Unfortunately, many people do feel that this is the best way, and so do their doctors! You see, your back pain can probably be fixed when we discover what's causing it. However, if you allow yourself to become deceived into thinking drugs alone will eliminate the pain, all you risk doing is to make it worse!!

Pain killers simple tell your brain that the pain isn’t there, but doesn’t do anything to treat what is causing it. Dulling the pain only masks the underlying cause, which could actually put you at higher risk of doing permanent damage to your back! Some of the worst back problems I’ve experienced with my patients came because they did too much while taking pain killers!!

Myth #3: My back just needs rest to get better. WRONG!!

Rest is the easiest recommendation a doctor can make to a patient with back pain, without prescribing drugs. It seems so logical, and may actually seem to work…until you stop resting. Understand that pain is nothing more than a signal to you from your body that something is wrong. Pain is the body’s version of a Stop sign, designed to curtail you from doing whatever is causing the pain. Rest, in most cases, is nothing more than temporary relief from whatever is causing your back pain. Once you stop resting, the underlying cause of you pain is still there, and will cause you pain until you actually do something to fix the problem.

The truth is that staying in motion is a better treatment for back pain than rest, especially once you’ve diagnosed and are properly treating the cause of the pain. In much the same vein as why you tend to get stiff when you sit or lie in a single position for too long, resting too much with back pain can impede your own body’s natural ways to help heal and get you feeling better.

Once you are able to consult with an experienced expert and actually discover the problem that is causing your back to hurt, you can actually fix the problem, and then you'll be blown away at how well the body can naturally start to heal itself. Rest may be a part of this healing process and the process of becoming pain free, but you must fix the problem first!!It may not seem like it right now, but your body is capable of amazing things, if you just give it the chance.

Your body has an amazing inborn capacity to heal

Myth #4: There’s nothing I can really do on a daily basis to help relieve back pain. WRONG!!

You have a number of options available to you that treat address the CAUSE of back pain, not just alleviating the pain itself. It’s easy to focus on the pain, because you have to live with it every day. I really do get that, and I also would be doing you a serious injustice to just help you treat the pain, WITHOUT helping you find and treat the underlying cause too. Everything you do to alleviate back pain is worthless to you unless you find and treat the problem first.

Don't put this off. You must find out the true reason your back is in pain. If you don't find out, your back will not get any better and you’ll still have no idea of how to make it better. Pain is a symptom of a problem, not the problem itself! The first step to getting rid of back pain is a proper diagnosis of what is causing it. To do that, you need to seek help from a specialist who has been down this road before. I can provide you a way to finally take the proper steps to a pain free tomorrow.

"We Focus On Your Total Health When Helping You Address Back Pain!"

This, if for no other reason, is why this Special Report is so important. Why? You need relief, and you also need to know WHY you’ve been suffering from back pain. Medication can dull pain, and surgery can correct severe problems. I can tell you from experience that most back pain sufferers require a simpler, and less painful solution. Doesn’t that sound like a better way to proceed?

Treating ADDRESSING the cause of back pain starts with understanding why you have it. How would you feel if you endured the pain and expense of surgery (and the prescribed drugs that come with it), only to find out that a combination of stretching and targeted exercise would have been the answer all along? This may not be the answer for everyone, but the truth is that 90% of all surgeries are arguably unnecessary and I don’t think I have to tell you that medications are both overprescribed and overused. When there is a simpler (and more accessible) answer that may be right for you, you deserve nothing less!

A better approach to actually treating back pain starts with a better overall approach to health and wellness. Isolating back pain and ignoring other life issues like diet, nutrition, exercise, and the like provides a short-term solution at best. While it may not make immediate sense that such things could be influencing your back pain, you might be surprised that what you’re doing (or not doing) on a daily basis could have a lot to do with why you’re feeling the pain you do. The great news is that basic physical and dietary issues are relatively easy to treat, and we focus on the “total you”, not just the pain.

Right now, it's that important for you to take some action in the right direction. Before you can start truly living your life again, you must discover WHY your is killing you, and what you can do NOW to right the ship.

Taking action NOW is as simple as picking up the phone. You can find out quickly and easily what we can do for you, by simply calling 303-998-1000. This will allow our team at Network Family Wellness Center to set you up with a FREE Back Pain Consultation(Value up to $250!) The Consultation is FREE, and all you have to do is call!

When you decide to schedule your FREE Consultation, we promise to do our best to detect, fix, and possibly relieve your back pain. Unlike other experiences you may have had before, we also promise to help you understand the CAUSE of your pain, because that is the true key to long-term success and relief.

The key is to act now. The Free Back Pain Consultation that we are offering to you today is a tremendous value and we won’t be able to offer it forever may be gone within a few days. Obviously we can't give away consultations for FREE for too long and still expect to have time to help all of our existing patients. So, don't lose this opportunity, fill out the form below now.

Information is only as useful as how it gets used to help you improve your life. Living with back pain and without taking action is no fun, and I have the client history and the experience so say: “I know what you’re going through!!”

You have the information you need to get started down a better road to feeling better. The time is now to stop procrastinating, and take action to find out what's actually at the root of your back pain.

I’ve made it easy for you to take the next step. Here's 's going to happen.

1. Simply give us a call at 303-998-1000. No obligations!!

2. We'll send you information about how to get your Free Back Pain Consultation, with one of our specialists.

3. You decide when you want to come in and schedule an appointment for your Free Back Pain Consultation.

4. You start your PROPER journey to a pain free tomorrow. In some cases, your back will start to feel better, even after your first visit!

You have everything to gain, give us a call and start your path to a pain-free tomorrow. The only thing you have to lose is another day living your life with pain, when it doesn’t have to be that way! Pick up that phone, and give us a call at 303-998-1000. You’ll be glad you did!

Sciatica Info Letter

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 07:23:46 MST

JUST RELEASED: Experienced Sciatica Specialist Sheds New Light on What Causes Sciatica, Shatters Myths About Sciatica Treatment, and Exposes The Shocking Truth That Will Forever Change Your Pursuit of Sciatica Relief...

"Forget What You’ve Heard or Think You Know About Sciatica Relief: You Can Feel Better (and Sooner!) ...All Without Pointless Gimmicks, Gadgets, or Even Worse!!"

Monday, June 27th, 9:43 am

Dear Sciatica Sufferer,

I write to you today with wonderful news. If you’ve tired of living with nagging or even excruciating sciatica, if you're looking for a way to relieve your sciatica without needing potentially costly therapy or equipment, or perhaps even worse, and if you’re tired of the wrong experts taking their best guess about how to treat the cause of your pain...you're going to love what I have for you in this Special Report! Here’s what you have to look forward to:

1. The truth behind sciatica and why treatment for it is so often off-base, both in its timing and its severity.

2. Why sciatica inspires fear, and why sufferers just like you resort to potentially dangerous drugs, therapies, or “miracle tools”.

3. The Top 4 Myths Surrounding Sciatica Relief: You’ll learn the surprising truth about sciatica, and why so many pain sufferers are led in the wrong direction, everyday!

4. The one step you can take NOW to start seeking relief from your sciatica once and for all.

As you can see, you have a lot to look forward to in this Special Report, and let me start by asking you a basic question. “Are you among the countless sciatica sufferers, who aren’t sure why they are experiencing pain, and why it feels strong in one area, but may be affecting other areas of the body too?”

Have you researched sciatica, only to find a bunch of different theories and claims that seem to be solid? Do “science-based” treatments and equipment that help with sciatica grab your attention? Chances are, these things are true and from my experience, you have every right to be at least confused, or at least wondering what really WILL work in treating your sciatica.

If you’re like the countless people out there who suffer from sciatica, you’ve probably also seen a doctor at some point, so you know that sciatica can be serious business. Sciatica is serious business because it originates in the lower spine. If you’re like most people, when you start hearing about spine issues, it may send a shiver down your…you guessed it, your spine. It must be serious, and treatment is a must, right? The truth is that:

“Medically, sciatica rarely requires anywhere near the level of treatment you might be thinking.”

WHAT?? Perhaps you feel you’ve done everything you can, to no avail. You’ve seen a doctor (or even a specialist!), you’ve tried pain medication or other remedies, you’ve followed doctor’s orders, and you’ve heard lots of different opinions about how to treat your sciatica. All the while, the pain still lingers!

Sound familiar?? If you’re living with sciatica and are frustrated with the lack of information and worthwhile results you’ve received to date, things are about to change. You may be shocked to see how simple it may be to finally heal, fix, and relieve the sciatica you’re living with AND the cause behind it!

“Yes, sciatica is a symptom, not the cause. You need to fix what’s CAUSING your pain too!”

First, before you go any further, please allow me to introduce myself...my name is Dr. Daniel Knowles. Plain and simple, I help people just like you that suffer from sciatica. I don’t run a general practice, in which I happen to come across patients who are experiencing sciatica. Helping people just like you relieve sciatica, once and for all, is what I do and have been doing now for over a decade.

Every day, I am helping people in your exact, painful situation. I take pride in the fact that people come to my office each day with all types and causes of sciatica, and within a short period of time, are able to enjoy a pain free lifestyle once again. Sometimes, certain medical conditions require more time, and perhaps even a more significant procedure before the pain is totally gone.This however, is the rare exception, not the norm, and especially when you have sciatica.

Through the years, I’ve had the great fortune to see the tremendous impact our team is making in the lives of so many people who come to see us. Some of our patients come to us, having endured both sciatica and the disappointment of failed remedies they’ve tried before, for a long time. Others come in before the pain becomes more severe (which is a great thing to do, by the way), but in some way, they are all suffering and sometimes severely so. Perhaps, this is the situation you’re in right now.

I know you’re sick and tired of sciatica, whether it’s constant, comes and goes, or affects your legs and joints, and I would like you toread the next statement very carefully, BEFORE GOING ANY FURTHER IN THIS SPECIAL REPORT!!

"Much of What You’ve Ever Heard About Relieving Sciatica is A Myth ...You Deserve Better and May Be Able To Feel Relief (and Relief That You Can Trust) In A Short Period Of Time!"

Statistics show that the majority of people who experience some sort of sciatica have no idea what is causing it. If this is the case, do you think they’ll seek the proper treatment? Sadly, the answer is ‘No’ and many people suffer unnecessarily because of a basic lack of understanding.

I first want to be clear about what sciatica is, and what it isn’t. Sciatica is pain caused when the sciatic nerve (which branches out from the base of the spine in your lower back area) is pinched or compressed. If you’ve ever heard the term “pinched nerve”, then sciatica is just a fancy term for that exact type of pain.

The fact that the sciatic nerve continues all the way down into the legs also means that a pinched sciatic nerve can cause more than just lower back pain. It can also cause numbness or achiness in the legs, and is attributable to the same pinch. Most pinched nerves eventually correct themselves, and sciatica is no different. Even extreme cases of sciatica will often get better on their own within 6 weeks.

SIX WEEKS!!! This may be of little consolation to someone who is suffering from sciatica, especially if you're in severe pain and you've been suffering this way for a while now. My point is not to suggest that you just need to “tough it out”, but rather to help steer you to a better solution than what most sciatica sufferers seek.

As a doctor myself, I’m not here to throw darts at other members of my profession. That said, I also know that most of the doctors who people with sciatica go to see (maybe this is something you’ve done too) are not sciatica specialists. They do what most doctors would ethically do…make a good faith effort diagnosis, and then prescribe some combination of rest and perhaps some medication to help with the pain.

Does this scenario sound familiar? If so, you were probably at first thrilled that you had a doctor’s opinion guiding your pursuit of sciatica relief. You had no reason to think the diagnosis or the prescribed treatments might not work, did you? Weeks or months later, however, the pain was still there or maybe even worse.

This time, perhaps you sought the help of a specialist, found some stretching apparatus on the Internet, or were even considering the possibility of more extreme treatment. Why? When simple solutions don’t work, then the problem must be more severe and require a more elaborate solution. Right? Not necessarily.

What you really need is a specialist who truly understands the causes of sciatica, and who appreciates how sciatica is tied to your overall health and wellness. I know what it’s like, because I see your pain on the faces of my patients each and every day. I have the training and experience to solve your sciatica problem, and I have the guts to tell you honestly how you may be able to relieve your sciatica very soon.

“Why Serious Treatments Are Rarely the Answer for Sciatica”

Despite any research you may have done yourself, and despite the extensive education held by those who may be recommending surgery as an option, it still makes little sense in most sciatica cases. Well over 90% of sciatica surgeries or even invasive injections are completely unnecessary and/or ineffective, and they may do more harm than good in the long run.

Millions of dollars are spent each year on back-related procedures, and millions more are lost due to prolonged recoveries and work absences. All this for a type of procedure that MAYBE has a 10% chance of really fixing the problem?

In the vast majority of cases, some sort of dietary, nutritional, or physical causes are at the root of sciatica. It could be due to carrying around excessive weight, not getting enough key nutrients, or simply too much of a motion or movement that is harmful to the body. Few of these causes would warrant extreme measures, and nearly all are treatable without even coming near an operating room. You deserve to know the truth about your sciatica, especially if means not having to agree to a risky, costly, and likely ineffective treatment.

"Why Do People Blindly Take Medication, or Try Crazy Home Remedies for Sciatica, Even If They've Seen And Heard About The Poor Results?

This is such a great question, and the answer to it captures why so many people are experiencing sciatica when they don’t need to be. The short answer is “DESPERATION!” When all else fails, there seems to be no other choice! Human nature is such that people will go to much greater lengths to avoid pain than they would to seek something pleasurable. In short, put someone in enough pain, and they’ll do most anything to make it go away!

Shouldn’t something as serious as hard-core pain medication, epidural injections or surgery be only the lastoption you’d consider for sciatica? Doesn’t it seem like a shot in the dark to pay good money for some crazy gimmick or apparatus that promises fast sciatica relief? Seemingly so, but if you’re desperate enough, anything sounds better than more pain, right?

After reading the rest of this Special Report and in doing so learning that there is a better path to complete sciatica relief, you will no longer have to consider getting surgery or taking pain medication as being the only courses of action you have left. You’ll also give less credence to those miracle cures that seem good, but really have no proven merit. You do have a better path to follow, and it starts with really knowing why you are in pain to begin with. It doesn’t have to involve invasive procedures, injections, or just doing what you can to take the edge off the pain, over and over again.

The right solution also doesn’t have to mean continuing to just “grin and bear it”, watching the world pass by while you simply endure discomfort. Do you want to take the risk that your sciatica will get better as time goes on? Can you afford to live in pain, and perhaps miss work, for that time, when you could be pursuing a proper solution? Do you want to rely upon drugs to make life bearable?

In the great majority of sciatica cases just like yours, the solution is much easier and with much less risk, because your pain problem is a symptom of a basic back problem, and one that is pretty easy to correct. The only way to know for sure is to trust your gut, trust the troubling facts, and seek someone who can actually help you!

"Below Are The Top 4 Myths That Disguise The Truth About Treating Sciatica"

Yes, I promised you I would expose the myths that you’ve probably heard about sciatica AND sciatica relief. There is a simpler, and safer way to seeking the relief you deserve, and first you need to know the truth!

Myth #1: Sciatica is a problem that requires some sort of medical treatment to fix. WRONG!!

Sciatica is almost always due to a herniated or bulging disc in the lower back. This can occur from something as simple as a muscle strain, but rarely requires fancy treatments to help correct. The idea of surgery is appealing because people who have had severe or long-term sciatica come to believe that only a significant procedure can possibly help.

In some rare cases, surgery or other invasive treatment may be necessary. Just know that your sciatica can be caused by a variety of causes, very few of which actually “require” something more significant than some good targeted stretching and anti-inflammatory medication like ibuprofen. What you need is someone to help you discover the true cause of your pain, and who will rightfully recommend a proper treatment that is only what you NEED to get better. You deserve to start feeling like yourself again, pain free and living life to the fullest, and you deserve the best (and simplest) pathway to this outcome.

Myth #2: Sciatica can be permanently relieved with the right drugs. WRONG!!

I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest that nearly all of you reading this Special Report know that pain medication is not the best answer to your sciatica. You see, your sciatica can probably be fixed when we confirm what's causing it. However, if you allow yourself to become deceived into thinking drugs alone will eliminate the pain, all you risk doing is to make it worse!!

Sciatica is most often caused by inflammation in the discs in your lower back. Pain kills don’t relieve inflammation. They simply mask pain, telling your brain that the pain isn’t there, but don’t do anything to treat what is causing it. Dulling the pain only masks the underlying cause, which could actually put you at higher risk of doing permanent damage to your back! Some of the worst back problems I’ve experienced with my patients came because they did too much while taking pain killers!!

Myth #3: My back just needs rest to get better. WRONG!!

Rest is the easiest recommendation a doctor can make to a patient with sciatica, without prescribing drugs. It seems so logical, and may actually seem to work…until you stop resting. Understand that pain is nothing more than a signal to you from your body that something is wrong. Pain is the body’s version of a Stop sign, designed to curtail you from doing whatever is causing the pain. Rest, in most cases, is nothing more than temporary relief from whatever is causing your sciatica. Once you stop resting, the underlying cause of you pain is still there, and will cause you pain until you actually do something to fix the problem.

The truth is that staying in motion is a better treatment for sciatica than rest; especially once you’ve diagnosed and are properly treating the cause of the pain. In much the same vein as why you tend to get stiff when you sit or lie in a single position for too long, resting too much with sciatica can impede your own body’s natural ways to help heal and get you feeling better.

Myth #4: There’s nothing I can really do on a daily basis to help relieve sciatica. WRONG!!

You have a number of options available to you that address the CAUSE of sciatica, not just alleviating the pain itself. It’s easy to focus on the pain, because you have to live with it every day. I really do get that, and I also would be doing you a serious injustice to just help you treat the pain, WITHOUT helping you find and treat the underlying cause too. Everything you do to alleviate sciatica is worthless to you unless you find and treat the problem first.

Don't put this off. If you’re like most sciatica sufferers, and have a herniated or inflamed disc that is responsible for your symptoms, there are some simple stretches, exercises, and the like that you can and should be doing every day to accelerate the healing process. You must find out the true reason your back is in pain. If you don't find out, your back will, at a minimum, take longer to get better and you could even be making things worse.

Sciatica may not be difficult to treat, but the first step to getting rid of sciatica is a proper confirmation of what is causing it. To do that, you need to seek help from a specialist who has been down this road before. I can provide you a way to finally take the proper steps to a pain free tomorrow.

"We Focus On Your Total Health When Helping You Address Sciatica!"

This, if for no other reason, is why this Special Report is so important. Why? You need relief, and you also need to know WHY you’ve been suffering from sciatica. Medication can dull pain, and surgery can correct severe problems. I can tell you from experience that most sciatica sufferers require a much simpler, and far less painful solution. Doesn’t that sound like a better way to proceed?

Addressing the cause of sciatica starts with understanding why you have it. How would you feel if you endured the pain and expense of surgery (or even a spinal injection), only to find out that a combination of stretching and targeted exercise would have been the answer all along? This may not be the answer for everyone, but the truth is that a vast majority of major procedures are just unnecessary! When there is a simpler (and more accessible) answer that may be right for you, you deserve nothing less!

A better approach to actually treating sciatica starts with a better overall approach to health and wellness. Isolating sciatica and ignoring other life issues like diet, nutrition, exercise, and the like provides a short-term solution at best. While it may not make immediate sense that such things could be influencing your sciatica, you might be surprised that what you’re doing (or not doing) on a daily basis could have a lot to do with why you’re feeling the pain you do. The great news is that we focus on the “total you”, not just the pain.

Right now, it's that important for you to take some action in the right direction. Before you can start truly living your life again, you must discover WHAT is causing your sciatica, and what you can do NOW to right the ship.

Taking action NOW is as simple as picking up the phone. You can find out quickly and easily what we can do for you, by simply calling 303-998-1000, or by clicking here. This will allow our team at Network Family Wellness Center to set you up with a FREE Sciatica Consultation(Value up to $250!) The Consultation is FREE, and all you have to do is call!

When you decide to schedule your FREE Sciatica Consultation, we promise to do our best to detect, fix, and possibly relieve what is causing the pain you are feeling. Unlike other experiences you may have had before, we also promise to help you understand the CAUSE of your sciatica, because that is the true key to long-term success and relief.

The key is to act now. The Free Sciatica Consultation that we are offering to you today is a tremendous value and we won’t be able to offer it forever may be gone within a few days. Obviously we can't give away consultations for FREE for too long and still expect to have time to help all of our existing patients. So, don't lose this opportunity, fill out the form below now.

Information is only as useful as how it gets used to help you improve your life. Living with acute or chronic sciatica pain and without taking action is no fun, and I have the client history and the experience so say: “I know what you’re going through!!”

I’ve made it easy for you to take the next step. Here's 's going to happen.

1. Simply give us a call at 303-998-1000. You can also take the next step by clicking right here! No obligations!!

2. We'll send you information about how to get your Free Sciatica Consultation, with one of our specialists.

3. You decide when you want to come in and schedule an appointment for your Free Sciatica Consultation.

4. You start your PROPER journey to a pain free tomorrow. In some cases, your back will start to feel better, even after your first session!

Neck Pain Info Letter

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 07:19:26 MST

JUST RELEASED: Experienced Neck Pain Doctor Challenges Convention and Blows Holes in the Myths About Neck Pain, Exposing The Startling Reality Behind A Natural Path to Neck Pain Relief...

"Forget What You’ve Heard About Neck Pain Relief: You Can Feel Better (and Sooner!)...Without Extreme Measures!!"

Monday, June 27th, 10:43 am

Dear Neck Pain Sufferer,

I write to you today with a smile on my face and great news. If you’ve been living with nagging or even debilitating neck pain, chances are you’re sick and tired of it, and you have every reason to feel this way! If you’ve explored just about every treatment option available to you, including potentially dangerous surgery or drugs, and if you’re tired of the experts taking their best guess about what is causing your pain, then stay tuned.

You need the truth, you need something different...and you're going to love what I have for you in this Special Report! Here’s what you have to look forward to:

1. The secrets to relieving your neck pain without having to resort to potentially dangerous drugs, surgery, or “miracle cures”.

2. The Top 4 Myths Surrounding Neck Pain Relief: You’ll learn the surprising truth about neck pain, why so many pain sufferers are led in the wrong direction, and how you can start seeking the right kind of pain relief today!

3. The one step you can take NOW to start seeking relief from your neck pain once and for all.

Let me start by asking you a basic question. “Are you among the countless neck pain sufferers, who are a bit skeptical about the promises they’ve heard regarding neck pain relief?” Chances are, this is true and from my experience,

“You have every right to be a skeptic!”

First, before you go any further, please allow me to introduce myself. My name is Dr. Daniel Knowles. Plain and simple, I help people that suffer from neck pain. I don’t run a general practice, in which I happen to come across patients who are experiencing neck pain. Helping people just like you relieve neck pain, once and for all, is what I do and have been doing for over a decade.

Through the years, I’ve had the great fortune to see the tremendous impact our team is making in the lives of so many people who come to see us. Some of our patients come to us, having endured both neck pain and the disappointment of failed remedies they’ve tried before, for a long time. Others come in before the pain becomes more severe (which is a great thing to do, by the way), but in some way, they are all suffering and sometimes severely so. Perhaps, this is the situation you’re in right now.

I’ve seen the damage that neck pain can cause. It can reduce your quality of life, stop you from doing activities you’ve always enjoyed, all in addition to the pure physical pain you feel every day. I know you’re not just one to sit back and deal with the pain, and maybe what you’ve tried before either hasn’t worked, or only offered temporary relief. I know this to be true, because it has been so for so many of my other patients.

I know you’re sick and tired of neck pain and I would like you toread the next statement very carefully, BEFORE GOING ANY FURTHER IN THIS SPECIAL REPORT!!

“Neck pain is literally a ‘pain in the neck’! Neck pain relief is about more than just the pain itself. You need to fix what’s CAUSING your pain too!”

Neck pain is serious business and you know that what you’re experiencing is more than just a random neck kink that comes from sleeping in a funny position. Simply stretching it and letting your neck pain work itself out is yesterday’s news and, if you’re like most sufferers, you may feel you’ve done everything you can, to no avail. You’ve seen a doctor (or even a specialist!), you’ve followed doctor’s orders, and you’ve heard lots of different opinions about what MIGHT be causing your neck pain. All the while, the pain still lingers!

Sound familiar?? If you’re living with neck pain and are frustrated with the lack of information and results you’ve received to date, things are about to change. You may be shocked to see how simple it may be to finally heal, fix, and relieve the neck pain you’re living with AND the cause behind it! You may also be shocked to know the unfortunate truth that I’ve come to learn:

"Much of What You’ve Ever Heard (to Date) About Relieving Neck Pain is Myth!"

Statistics show that a majority of people experience some sort of neck pain in their lifetime. For most, it is a random kink, or perhaps the result of a chance event like an automobile collision. For others, it is a much more chronic and severe kind of pain that is made worse by not knowing what is causing it. My point is not to suggest that you’re a part of an unfortunate statistic, but rather to help steer you to a better solution than what most neck pain sufferers seek.

What do you think most people do when their neck hurts? You guessed it…they try rest and over the counter medications first. If that doesn’t help, they go see their doctor. Does this scenario sound familiar? You had no reason to think a doctor’s diagnosis or the prescribed treatments might not work, did you? Weeks or months later, however, the pain was still there or maybe even worse. If this is the path that you’ve followed to date, enduring pain while following weird solutions or diagnosis some doctors, friends or even so called specialists have told you, you are ready for something different.

I created this Special Report to show you how you may not have to suffer anymore. Perhaps you’re thinking ‘I’ve been down this road before.’ or ‘Great..just another expert ready to offer their best guess as to what is really wrong.’ I get it and your skepticism is understandably fueled by the simple fact that you’re still in pain. You want something different, and you want a solution that actually works for a change.

I know right now your neck is probably hurting and the last thing you want to hear right now is anything OTHER THAN specific ways you can quickly and finally stop the pain and suffering you’ve been enduring.

Instead of painful and unreliable surgery or dangerous medications, what you really need is a specialist who truly understands the causes of neck pain, and who appreciates how neck pain is tied to your overall health and wellness. I know what it’s like, because I see your pain on the faces of my patients each and every day. I have the training and experience to solve your neck problem, and I have the guts to tell you honestly how you may be able to relieve your neck pain very soon.

“Why Surgery and Drugs Are Rarely the Answer for Neck Pain”

Despite all the research you may have done yourself, and despite the expert opinions behind them, recommendations of surgery or dangerous drugs still make little sense in most neck pain cases. 90% or more of neck pain surgeries are unnecessary and/or ineffective, and they may do more harm than good in the long run. Drugs are an entirely different challenge, and all you have to do is read a list of potential side effects from common pain medication to scare yourself away from that idea!

What you need to understand is that your neck, back and spine are on the front lines of taking the physical toll of being a living breathing human being. They, along with the joints in your legs, are the most prone to conditions or scenarios that result in painful symptoms. In rare cases, extreme measures are necessary but this the exception.

In the vast majority of cases, some sort of dietary, nutritional, or physical causes are at the root of neck pain. It could be due to poor posture, not getting enough key nutrients, or simply too much of a motion or movement that is harmful to the body. Nearly all of these causes are treatable without even coming near an operating room. Even if it’s brutally honest, you deserve to know the truth about your neck pain, especially if means not having to agree to a risky, costly, and likely ineffective surgery.

"Why Do People Blindly Take Medication, or Fall for Gimmicky Gadgets, Even When They Have No Proof That It Will Actually Work?”

This is such a great question, and the answer to it captures why so many people are experiencing neck pain when they don’t need to be. The short answer is “DESPERATION!” When all else fails, there seems to be no other choice! Human nature is such that people will do far more to avoid pain than they would to seek something pleasurable. In short, put someone in enough pain, and they’ll do most anything to make it go away!

Shouldn’t something as serious as hard-core pain medication or surgery be only the lastoption you’d consider for pain? Wouldn’t you want more information about a treatment than just what a talking head says in an infomercial? If you’re desperate enough, anything sounds better than more pain. What’s more is that if it’s a doctor suggesting it, and the pain is too much to endure any more, even something you’d naturally dismiss will seem like the best thing to do.

After reading the rest of this Special Report, and learning that there is a better path to complete neck pain relief, you will no longer have to consider putting yourself at permanent risk or the products touted on late-night TV as your best choices for neck pain relief. You do have a better path to follow, and it starts with really knowing why you are in pain to begin with.

The right solution also doesn’t have to mean continuing to watch the world pass by while you’re enduring discomfort, and hoping the pain will go away without you having to make a rash decision. In the great majority of neck pain cases just like yours, the solution is much easier and with much less risk than you might think. The only way to know for sure is to trust your gut, resist the pressure to do something that could cause you permanent harm, and seek someone who can actually help you!

"Below Are The Top Myths That Disguise The Truth About Neck Pain"

Yes, I promised you I would expose the myths that you’ve probably heard about neck pain AND neck pain relief. There is a simpler, and safer way to seeking the relief you deserve, and first you need to know the truth!

Myth #1: Chronic or severe neck pain is a serious problem that requires extreme measures to fix. WRONG!!

Extreme measures like surgery are often seen as necessary, in a bizarre example of the “punishment matching the crime” kind of logic. In short, the thinking is that the worse the pain is, the more extreme the means must be to fix it. It’s an easy trap to fall into, but don’t fall for this twisted reasoning!!

The idea of surgery is appealing because people who have had severe or long-term neck pain come to believe that only a significant procedure can possibly help. Surgery is an understandable yet desperate act to get rid of the pain, but it doesn’t have to be this way!

In some rare cases, surgery may be necessary. Just know that your neck pain can be caused by a variety of causes, very few of which actually “require” surgery. You need someone to help you discover the true cause of your pain, and who will rightfully only recommend surgery if it is indeed a last resort. You deserve to start feeling like yourself again, pain free and living life to the fullest, and you deserve the best (and simplest) pathway to this outcome.

Myth #2: Neck pain can be permanently relieved with the right drugs. WRONG!!

I’m going to give you a tremendous amount of credit and presume nearly all of you reading this Special Report know that pain medication is NOT the best answer to your neck pain. Unfortunately, many people do feel that this is the best way, and so do their doctors! It’s because it’s easy, and the easy way is rarely the right way, when it comes to serious issues like pain.

You see, your neck pain can probably be fixed when we discover what's causing it. However, if you allow yourself to become deceived into thinking drugs alone will eliminate the pain, all you risk doing is to make it worse!!

Painkillers simple tell your brain that the pain isn’t there, but doesn’t do anything to treat what is causing it. Dulling the pain only masks the underlying cause, which could actually put you at higher risk of doing permanent damage to your neck! Some of the worst neck problems I’ve experienced with my patients happened while they were taking painkillers!!

Myth #3: My neck will eventually get better if I just take it easy. WRONG!!

Rest is the easiest recommendation a doctor can make to a patient with neck pain, without prescribing drugs. It’s also a convenient cop out for not really knowing what is wrong. The prognosis seems so logical, and hey, at least it’s better than getting your head bolted into one of those frames, right? The truth is that rest, in most cases, is nothing more than temporary relief from whatever is causing your neck pain. Once you stop resting, the underlying cause of your pain is still there, and will cause you pain until you actually do something to fix the problem.

Surprisingly, staying in motion is a better treatment for neck pain than rest, especially once you’ve diagnosed and are properly treating the cause of the pain. In much the same vein as why you tend to get stiff when you sit or lie in a single position for too long, resting too much with neck pain can impede your own body’s natural ways to help heal and get you feeling better.

Once you are able to consult with an experienced expert and actually discover the problem that is causing your neck to hurt, you'll be blown away at how well the body can naturally start to heal itself. Rest may be a part of this healing process and the process of becoming pain free, but you must fix the problem first!!Your body has an amazing inborn capacity to heal, if you just give it the chance.

Myth #4: There’s nothing I can really do on a daily basis to help relieve neck pain. WRONG!!

You have a number of practical, healthy, and viable options available to you that address the CAUSE of neck pain, not just the pain itself. It’s easy to focus on the pain, because you have to live with it every day. I really do get that, and I also would be doing you a serious injustice to just help you treat the pain, WITHOUT helping you find and treat the underlying cause too. Everything you do to alleviate neck pain is worthless to you unless you find and treat the problem first.

Pain is a symptom of a problem, not the problem itself! The first step to getting rid of neck pain is a proper diagnosis of what is causing it. To do that, you need to seek help from a specialist who has been down this road before. I can provide you a way to finally take the proper steps to a pain free tomorrow.

"We Focus On Your Total Health When Helping You Address Neck Pain!"

You need relief, and you also need to know WHY you’ve been suffering from neck pain. Medication can dull pain, and surgery can correct severe problems. I can tell you from experience that most neck pain sufferers require a much simpler, and far less painful solution. Doesn’t that sound like a better way to proceed? This Report is the first simple step in the right direction.

Addressing the cause of neck pain starts with understanding why you have it. How would you feel if you endured the pain and expense of extreme treatment, only to find out that a combination of stretching and targeted exercise would have been the answer all along? This may not be the answer for everyone, but the truth is that 90% of all serious treatments (including surgeries) are arguably unnecessary, and are suggested way too often. When there is a simpler (and more accessible) answer that may be right for you, you deserve nothing less!

Forget what you may have heard before. A better approach to actually treating neck pain starts with a better overall approach to health and wellness. Proper diet, exercise and stretching are foundations for a healthy lifestyle, and they are also the foundations for treating symptoms like neck pain. You might be surprised that what you’re doing (or not doing) on a daily basis could have a lot to do with why you’re feeling the pain you do. The great news is that basic physical and dietary issues are relatively easy to treat, and we focus on the “total you”, not just the pain.

Relief Starts With A Simple Commitment to Action

Right now, it's that important for you to take some action in the right direction. Before you can start truly living your life again, you must discover WHAT is causing your back to be in so much pain, and what you can do NOW to right the ship.

Taking action NOW is as simple as picking up the phone. You can find out quickly and easily what we can do for you, by simply calling 303-998-1000. This will allow our team at Network Family Wellness Center to set you up with a FREE Neck Pain Consultation(Value up to $250!) The Consultation is FREE, and all you have to do is call!

When you decide to schedule your FREE Consultation, we promise to do our best to detect, fix, and possibly relieve your neck pain, on the spot. Unlike other experiences you may have had before, we also promise to help you understand the CAUSE of your pain, because that is the true key to long-term success and relief. At a minimum, you’ll know that you are finally on track to a proper path to relief, and peace of mind is a beautiful thing!

The key is to act now. The Free Neck Pain Consultation that we are offering to you today is a tremendous value and we won’t be able to offer it forever. In fact, this fantastic offer may be gone within a few days, since we can't give away consultations for FREE for too long and still expect to have time to help all of our existing patients.Don't lose this opportunity, contact us today!

Information is only as useful as how it gets used to help you improve your life. Living with neck pain and without taking action is no fun, and I have the client history and the experience so say: “I know what you’re going through!!”

You have the information you need to get started down a better road to feeling better. Stop procrastinating, and take action to find out what's actually at the root of your neck pain.Only then can true relief take place.

I’ve made it easy for you to take the next step. Here's 's going to happen.

1. Simply give us a call at 303-998-1000. No obligations!!

2. We'll send you information about how to get your Free Neck Pain Consultation, with one of our specialists.

3. You decide when you want to come in and schedule an appointment for your Free Neck Pain Consultation.

4. You start your PROPER journey to a pain free tomorrow. In some cases, your neck will start to feel better, even after your first session!

You have everything to gain, give us a call and start your path to a pain-free tomorrow. The only thing you have to lose is another day living your life with neck pain, when it doesn’t have to be that way! Pick up that phone, and give us a call at 303-998-1000. You’ll be glad you did!

Headache Pain Info Letter

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 07:15:41 MST

JUST RELEASED: Experienced Headache Pain Specialist Exposes Common Myths About Headache Pain, and Shares The Simple and Shocking Truth Behind A Natural Path to Headache Pain Relief...

"Much of What You’ve Ever Thought About Headache Pain Relief is A Hoax: You Can Feel Better (and More Consistently)...Without Undue Reliance on Pain Medication!!"

Monday, June 27th, 1:13 pm

Dear Headache Pain Sufferer,

I write to you today with great news. If you’re tired of living with nagging or even at times unbearable headache pain, if you're looking for a way to relieve your headache pain without constantly needing to take aspirin or other medication, and if you’re tired of the guesswork behind what is causing your pain, you're going to love what I have for you in this Special Report! Here’s what you have to look forward to:

1. The secrets to relieving your headache pain, without having to live in fear of when pain will strike again.

2. The Top 4 Myths Surrounding Headache Pain Relief: You’ll learn the surprising truth about headache pain, why so many pain sufferers are led in the wrong direction, and how you can start seeking the right kind of pain relief today!

3. The one step you can take NOW to start seeking relief from your headache pain once and for all.

As you can see, you have a lot to look forward to in this Special Report. First, before you go any further, please allow me to introduce myself. My name is Dr. Daniel Knowles. Plain and simple, I help people that suffer from headache pain. I don’t run a general practice, in which I happen to come across patients who are experiencing headache pain.

For over a decade, I have been helping people in your exact, painful situation. I take pride in the fact that people come to my office each day with all types and causes of headache pain, and within a short period of time, are able to enjoy a pain free lifestyle once again.

Some of our patients come to us, having endured both headache pain and the disappointment of failed remedies they’ve tried before; in some cases, they’ve been living with pain for a long time. Perhaps, this is the situation you’re in right now.I know the damage that headache pain can cause. It can reduce your quality of life, affect your work, and stop you from doing activities you’ve always enjoyed, all in addition to the throbbing, nagging pain you feel every day. I know this to be true, because it has been true for so many of my other patients.

I know you’re sick and tired of headache pain and I would like you toread the next statement very carefully, BEFORE GOING ANY FURTHER IN THIS SPECIAL REPORT!!,

“There is something causing you to experience headache pain. You need to fix what’s CAUSING your pain, not just the pain itself!”

You might be looking at this statement and thinking ‘Duh, I knew that!’, so at least give me a chance to put this into perspective. Are you among the countless headache pain sufferers, who are a bit skeptical about the promises they’ve heard regarding headache pain relief? Chances are, this is true and from my experience, you have every right to be a skeptic! There is so much bogus that goes into treating headache pain, and it’s no wonder you’re hesitant about what I might have to say!

Let me take a guess at what you might have tried so far. If you’re like most headache pain sufferers, you may feel you’ve done everything you can, to no avail. You’ve seen a doctor (or even a specialist!), you’ve tried pain medication or other remedies, you’ve followed doctor’s orders, and you’ve heard lots of different opinions about what MIGHT be causing your headache pain. All the while, the pain still lingers!

Sound familiar?? If you’re living with headache pain and are frustrated with the lack of information and results you’ve received to date, things are about to change. You may be shocked to see how simple it may be to finally heal, fix, and relieve the headache pain you’re living with AND the cause behind it!

"You May Be Able To Feel Headache Relief (and Relief That You Can Trust) In A Short Period Of Time!"

Statistics show that most people experience some sort of headache pain in their lifetime. This may be of little consolation, especially if you're in severe pain and you've been suffering this way for months or even years. My point is not to suggest that you’re not alone, but rather to help steer you to a better solution than what most headache pain sufferers seek.

What do you think most people do when their head hurts? They lie down, they may close their eyes, and they take any number of over-the-counter medications to relieve the pain, or just put on a smile and hope the pain subsides. In many cases, these simple actions may work, and are often just effective enough to keep most people from feeling they need to do more.

Short of getting regular migraines, how many of you have ever gone to your doctor about getting headaches? Don’t get me wrong, here. I’m not trying to suggest that a simple headache should be cause to make an appointment ASAP. What I am suggesting is that many of you are not just getting random headaches. Yours are severe (maybe almost migraine-like), they happen seemingly all the time, and just when it may seem unbearable, the pain subsides a bit.

Does this scenario sound familiar? Maybe you’ve had enough and have already had a doctor’s opinion guiding your pursuit of headache pain relief. Sure, it seemed like the right thing to do but now, weeks or months later, the pain is still there or maybe even worse. So, now what? Are you left with the painful prospect of just having to deal with headache pain? Are you starting to accept it as just something that is a part of your life? It doesn’t have to be this way!

If this is the path that you’ve followed to date, enduring headache pain while following generic solutions or even a diagnosis from a doctor, you are ready for something different.I created this Special Report to show you how you may not have to suffer anymore. You want something different, and you want a solution that actually works for a change.

I know your head may very well be hurting right now, and the only thing you want to hear right now is HOW you can quickly and finally stop the pain and suffering you’ve been enduring. A complete solution to headache pain doesn’t have to be difficult, or drawn out, but it may mean doing things differently than you have been.

Instead of extra rest, avoiding your normal routine, or just taking some more ibuprofen, what you really need is a specialist who truly understands the causes of headache pain, and who appreciates how headache pain is tied to your overall health and wellness. I know what it’s like, because I see your pain on the faces of my patients each and every day. I have the training and experience to solve your headache problem, and I have the guts to tell you honestly how you may be able to relieve your headache pain very soon.

“Why Medicine is Rarely the Answer for Headache Pain”

Despite all the research you may have done yourself, there still is not much in the way of explaining most headache pain cases. Lots of people experience headache pain, and for most, the pain is at least moderately bearable, so one of the several over-the-counter pain relievers we all know becomes the most logical solution. A short while later, the pain usually subsides, and the issue of headache pain is at least temporarily forgotten.

Millions of dollars are spent each year on headache relief, and millions more are lost due to lack of concentration and work ineffectiveness, when headache pain strikes. When you consider the gravity of the cost, does it bother you that all most people are doing in these cases is putting a BandAid on the problem?

What you need to understand is that your head protects the most important organ in the human body. As such, it is at times hypersensitive to what we do, eat, and otherwise experience. Rarely does a simple pain reliever actually correct the problem, but yet it is fast, easy and trustworthy, so in with the show, at least until the next headache shows up again.

In the vast majority of cases, some sort of dietary, nutritional, or physical causes are at the root of headache pain. It could be due to insufficient consumption of water, lack of sleep, stress, muscle tension, not getting enough key nutrients, or even an allergic reaction to something you’re putting in your body. Nearly all of these possible causes are treatable without medication, no matter how readily you have access to common headache relievers like aspirin or ibuprofen.

"Why Do People Blindly Take Medication, or Just Choose to Live with Headache Pain?”

The unfortunate truth is that the ease of headache pain relief is a contributing part of why people don’t pursue more complete relief. After all, pain relievers are available over-the-counter, and are generally cost effective. Plus, they are so much a part of consumer product awareness that we feel we know and trust these products to work. When all of this happens, the idea of seeking a more comprehensive and more PROPER level of headache pain relief can just fade away.

After reading the rest of this Special Report and learning that there is a better path to complete headache pain relief, you will no longer have to accept that headache pain is just an unfortunate part of life. You will no longer feel that it is simply a burden you have to bear, or hope that the products you have in your medicine cabinet will do the trick….again.

The right solution also doesn’t have to mean continuing to just “grin and bear it”, watching the world pass by while you simply endure discomfort. Do you want to risk assuming there’s nothing you can do, when there may be a simple and very effective solution? However mild, do you want to rely upon medicine to make life bearable?

In the great majority of headache pain cases just like yours, the solution is much easier and with much less risk. The only way to know for sure is to trust your gut, trust the troubling facts, and seek someone who can actually help you!

"Below Are The Top 4 Myths That Disguise The Truth About Headache Pain"

Yes, I promised you I would expose the myths that you’ve probably heard about headache pain AND headache pain relief. There is a simpler, and better way of seeking the relief you deserve, and first you need to know the truth!

Myth #1: Chronic or severe headache pain is a sure sign of a serious medical problem. WRONG!!

Headache pain is a symptom of something not being quite right in the body, but rarely is symptomatic of something that is ultra-serious. I don’t make mention of this to make you feel more assured about the headaches you’re getting, and probably have been getting for some time now. Even if you don’t have a reason to suspect that there might be something SERIOUSLY wrong, wouldn’t you still like to know what is causing your headaches?

The tendency to want to avoid formal diagnosis and treatment, once one can rule out major life-threatening issues, is all too common, and also results in countless people suffering unnecessarily from headache pain. Yes, the numbers don’t lie and the chances are excellent that there’s nothing seriously wrong with you, even if you experience regular headache pain. Still, it is pain that you must endure, and wouldn’t you at least like to know if there was a simple and painless path to getting rid of that pain for good?

Myth #2: Headache pain can be reliably treated with the right medication. WRONG!!

Headache pain can be temporarily treated with common over-the-counter pain relievers, and these products work about as well on headache pain as they do on muscle aches and every day back pain. The point is that, while you may be experiencing some pain relief with the common products you use, you’re not treating the source of the pain whatsoever.

Some people get headaches as an allergic response to preservatives in foods, or to certain foods themselves. Is a pain reliever going to appease the allergy? Of course not. It simply dulls the headache pain, often to where it is simply tolerable until the allergic response comes and goes. Is this how you want to proceed, with your own headache pain? Do you want to continue throwing a BandAid on the scratch, knowing that it really is never healing? It is time to actually treat the cause of your headache pain, and that is the first step to more consistent and more complete pain relief.

Myth #3: I just need to stay away from the things that cause my headaches. WRONG!!

Do you think that completely changing the way you live is a sure way to escape the cycle of headache and headache pain? If being out in the sun gives you a headache, is avoiding the sun the answer? In some cases, the causes of headache pain may point to a lifestyle adjustment, often dietary in nature.

However, these cases are usually not severe enough to warrant making wholesale changes to everything you do. Headaches are a drag, and the pain is sometimes very tough to bear, but is there a limit to what you’d do to escape the pain? The point is that there are options available to people who regularly suffer from headache pain, and these options do not have to mean abandoning the life and the interests you have.

There is a better way, and that way starts with properly treating the cause of headache pain, not avoiding what you see as circumstances or events that result in headaches. It’s one thing to take an active role in your own wellness, and another completely to take on the role of a pain specialist, which most of you are not. It just isn’t necessary!

Myth #4: Some people just get headaches and there’s really not anything I can do about it. WRONG!!

This is the most common excuse offered by the perennial headache sufferer, and I don’t want to seem insensitive if I’m suggesting that your mindset is off base here. The truth is that people convince themselves that there’s nothing they can do about headache pain, when the reality is that they just don’t know WHAT to do about the pain.

Despite what you may feel, people don’t just get headaches, like some people are just prone to sunburn. Headaches are a symptom that something isn’t right, and it usually is not a symptom of anything real serious. It is suggestive of something that is worth treating and you owe it to yourself to really explore ALL of your options, instead of just gritting through the pain.

"We Focus On Your Total Health When Helping You Address Headache Pain!"

This Special Report is perhaps one of the most important things you may read, because consistent headache relief is literally at your fingertips. I know you desperately need relief, and you also would like to know WHY you’ve been suffering from headache pain. Medication is both common and can dull pain, but how much fun is it popping pills each and every day? I can tell you from experience that what most headache pain sufferers require is a simpler, AND more effective solution.

SIMPLER AND MORE EFFECTIVE!! Now, we’re talking!!

Addressing the cause of headache pain starts with understanding why you have it. So many different things can cause headaches, and it may not be one single cause that is making your life miserable. However easy they are to find and take, medications are both overprescribed and overused. When there is a simpler (and healthier) answer that may be right for you, you deserve nothing less!

A better approach to actually treating headache pain starts with a better overall approach to health and wellness. Isolating headache pain and ignoring other life issues like diet, nutrition, exercise, and the like provides a short-term solution at best. While it may not make immediate sense that such things could be influencing your headache pain, you might be surprised that what you’re doing (or not doing) on a daily basis could have a lot to do with why you’re feeling the pain you do. The great news is that basic physical and dietary issues are relatively easy to treat, and we focus on the “total you”, not just the pain.

The First Step to A Headache-Free Tomorrow Is to Commit to Taking Action Today!

Right now, it's so important for you to take some action in the right direction. Before you can start truly living your life again, you must discover WHAT is causing your head to be in so much pain, WHAT makes the pain come and go, and what you can do NOW to right the ship.

Taking action NOW is as simple as picking up the phone. You can find out quickly and easily what we can do for you, by simply calling 303-998-1000 or by clicking here. This will allow our team at Network Family Wellness Center to set you up with a FREE Headache Pain Consultation(Value up to $250!) The Consultation is FREE, and all you have to do is call!

When you decide to schedule your FREE Consultation, we promise to do our best to detect, fix, and possibly relieve your headache pain on the spot. Unlike other experiences you may have had before, we also promise to help you understand the CAUSE of your pain, because that is the true key to long-term success and relief. Pain relief is great, but if it comes back a few hours later, what’s the point?

The key is to act now. The Free Headache Pain Consultation that we are offering to you today is a tremendous value and we won’t be able to offer it forever. Obviously we can't give away consultations for FREE for too long and still expect to have time to help all of our existing patients. Don't lose this opportunity, so make the call or you can simply click here to learn more now.

Information is only as useful as how it gets used to help you improve your life. Living with headache pain and without taking action is no fun, and I have the client history and the experience to say: “I know what you’re going through!!”

I’ve made it easy for you to take the next step. Here's 's going to happen.

1. Simply give us a call at 303-998-1000. No obligations!!

2. We'll send you information about how to get your Free Headache Pain Consultation, with one of our specialists.

3. You decide when you want to come in and schedule an appointment for your Free Headache Pain Consultation.

4. You start your PROPER journey to a pain free tomorrow. In some cases, your head will start to feel better, even after your first session!

You have everything to gain, so give us a call and start your path to a pain-free tomorrow. The only thing you have to lose is another day living your life with headache pain, when it doesn’t have to be that way! Pick up that phone, and give us a call at 303-998-1000. You’ll be glad you did!

Wellness Info Letter

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 07:08:09 MST

JUST RELEASED: Experienced Spinal Health Doctor Comes Forward and Debunks Myths About Total Wellness, Exposing The Shocking Truth That Can Change Your Life…

"Forget What You’ve Been Told About What It Means to Be Healthy: You Can Achieve Total Wellness (and Sooner!)... Much Easier Than You Might Think!!"

Tuesday, June 28th, 9:34 am

Fellow Seeker of Better Health and Wellness,

I write to you today with great news. If you’re tired of not feeling right, or perhaps feeling pain, if you're looking for a way to feel better without needing unnecessary or expensive procedures, and if you’re tired of the experts taking their best guess about what is holding you back from feeling great...you're going to love what I have for you in this Special Report! Here’s what you have to look forward to:

1. The secrets to achieving total wellness without having to resort to unreliable methods, or “miracle cures”.

2. The Top 4 Myths Surrounding Total Wellness: You’ll learn the surprising truth about wellness, why so many are led in the wrong direction, and how you can start seeking true wellness today!

3. The one step you can take NOW to start seeking a total and complete approach to wellness.

As you can see, you have a lot to look forward to in this Special Report, and let me start by asking you a basic question. “Do you know what it means to achieve complete wellness?” Chances are, you may not and from my experience, you deserve to know!

Perhaps you’ve not felt right, and you just can’t put your finger on what exactly is wrong. Maybe you’ve been living with pain, and the traditional recipe of rest and pain relievers isn’t doing the trick. Maybe you’ve even seen a doctor, and they just aren’t sure what to tell you, or want to diagnose you with one of those “new” conditions or syndromes that you hear about on TV.

Sound familiar?? If you’ve been settling for anything short of complete wellness, things are about to change. You may be shocked to see how simple it may be to finally heal, fix, and make completely well the one body you have, and to learn how to keep it that way!

“Wellness Is A State We Create, As Compared to Fighting Disease and Symptoms After the Fact”

First, before you go any further, please allow me to introduce myself...my name is Dr. Daniel Knowles. Plain and simple, I help people who seek complete wellness in their lives. I don’t run a general practice, in which I happen to come across patients who are not well. I help people who are specifically seeking a complete level of wellness, and I have been doing this for over a decade.

Every day, I am helping people in your exact situation. I take pride in the fact that people come to my office each day with all types and causes of pain, and within a short period of time, are able to enjoy a pain free lifestyle once again. They also come to me just because they aren’t feeling right, and know that there is a better state of wellness they could be enjoying.

You see, wellness is the opposite of illness. Some people are very ill, and some are very well. Most people fall somewhere in between, perhaps not feeling sick but not feeling great either. This is what is called the “wellness continuum” and its explanation in the medical community is at best vague.

Through the years, I’ve had the great fortune to achieve a much better understanding of what it means to be well, and what to do achieve a greater level of wellness. The paths to wellness involve some things with which you ought to be familiar (e.g. diet, exercise, etc.) but there may be something even so-called “healthy” people are missing. Perhaps, this is the situation you’re in right now.

I know you’re tired of just NOT feeling well or in knowing that you could be feeling better than you are, and I would like you toread the next statement very carefully, BEFORE GOING ANY FURTHER IN THIS SPECIAL REPORT!!

"Much of What You’ve Ever Heard About Health and Wellness is Myth ...You Deserve Better and May Be Able To Feel Healthier In A Short Period Of Time!"

Statistics show that most people experience less than complete wellness, and often do so for extended periods of time. This may be of little consolation, especially if you're in this category and you've been suffering this way for months or even years. My point is not to suggest that you’re a part of an unfortunate statistic, but rather to help steer you to a better solution than what most people who desire greater wellness seek.

What do you think most people do when they don’t feel right, or are perhaps even sore or in pain? You guessed it…they try rest and over the counter medications first. If that doesn’t help, they go see their doctor, and that’s where this wellness story takes an unfortunate turn.

Does this scenario sound familiar? If so, you were probably at first thrilled that you had a doctor’s opinion guiding your pursuit of becoming more well. You had no reason to think the diagnosis or that prescribed treatments might not work, did you? Weeks or months later, however, you still didn’t feel that much better, if at all.

I created this Special Report to show you how you may not have to suffer anymore, or at least not have to settle for a lesser version of the completely well “you”. You want something different, and you want a solution that actually works for a change. What you really need is a specialist who truly understands the foundations of wellness, and who appreciates how spinal health is tied to your overall wellness. I have the training and experience to address your spinal health, and I have the confidence to tell you honestly how you may be able to achieve a complete level of wellness very soon.

“A Healthy Spine Is A Healthy You”

A key thing you need to understand about wellness is the role of spinal health in total wellness. You could have a great diet, exercise regularly, and otherwise take good care of yourself, and still come up short of complete wellness. Your spine is the key. Its role as the central processor of nerve impulses and feelings in the body means that even small stresses on the spine can have a more complete impact on your feeling of wellness.

In the vast majority of cases, some sort of dietary, nutritional, or physical causes are at the root of incomplete spinal wellness. It could be due to carrying around excessive weight, not getting enough key nutrients, or simply too much of a motion or movement that is harmful to the body. The good news is that addressing spinal health is relatively easy and painless, especially when you seek help from someone who specializes in this.

"Healthy People Make Healthy Choices and Healthy Choices Make Healthy People”

After reading the rest of this Special Report and in doing so learning that there is a better path to total wellness, you will no longer have to consider traditional medicinal routes as being the only courses of action you have left. You do have a better path to follow, and it starts with really knowing why you not well to begin with. It doesn’t have to involve crazy diagnoses or procedures or just doing what you can to make you feel a little better, over and over again.

The right solution also doesn’t have to mean continuing to just “grin and bear it”, watching the world pass by while you know you’re not as well as you could be. Do you want to thumb your nose at the fact that some simple lifestyle changes and bodily adjustments might be all that you need to reach a level of wellness you haven’t had in a long time?

In the great majority of cases just like yours, where complete wellness seems like a delightful fantasy, the solution is much easier and with much less risk than you might think. The only way to know for sure is to trust your gut, trust that there is a path to greater wellness, and seek someone who can actually help you!

"Below Are The Top 4 Myths That Disguise The Truth About Complete Health and Wellness"

Yes, I promised you I would expose the myths that you’ve probably heard about what it truly means to be healthy and well. There is a simpler, and safer way to seeking the life you deserve, and first you need to know the truth!

Myth #1: Wellness is about getting me back to the life I used to enjoy. WRONG!!

Despite what you may think, the life you had before you didn’t feel well was likely not one that was COMPLETELY well. Sure, you felt better than you do now, but imagine doing more than just going back to the way you used to feel. That would be a nice start, and what if you could feel even BETTER?

The approach to total wellness that I am talking about centers around spinal health, which most people largely ignore because they just don’t know any better. When you can address spinal health, the results can do more than just bring you back to where you were before. They can rocket you to new levels of wellness that perhaps you’ve never felt in your whole life! This is the goal I have when working with patients who are seeking greater wellness, and the results can be truly extraordinary.

Myth #2: Wellness is about figuring out what is wrong and fixing it. WRONG!!

Wellness is not about fixing what is wrong. It is about focusing on what is right for the body. The medical profession (including purveyors of pain medication and other treatments) have done a great job of showcasing how they can fix what’s wrong, time and time again. This is OK, but it is not achieving greater wellness; it is simply getting you back to the original place you started.

A truer path to wellness is a direct focus on what is best for your body, and that starts with spinal health. When you (with the help of a specialist) focus directly on the spine, you’ll find that not only do things that are wrong tend to “fix” themselves, but you can also achieve a level of wellness you’ve not seen before.

Myth #3: My back has nothing to do with the way my whole body feels. WRONG!!

It’s easy to get lulled into thinking that your back and your spine are just parts of the body, and are thus independent of other things you do and feel. This couldn’t be more off base, and the sooner you realize just how important spinal health is to total wellness, the sooner you’ll be able to start enjoying life the way it was meant to be lived.

Spinal health is not rocket science, but it does require input from a specialist, who understands the role of the spine in total wellness, and who knows how to effectively manipulate the spine to improve its health. Standard medical practitioners, websites, and word of mouth cannot emulate the focused efforts on spinal health you can get from one specialist who truly can focus on wellness the way it was meant to be!

Myth #4: There’s nothing I can really do on a daily basis to help achieve total wellness. WRONG!!

Your daily life has everything to do with your level of wellness. The choices you make, the foods you eat, and the physical activities you pursue, all contribute to your total spinal health, and this means they contribute to your total wellness. As soon as you concede that lack of wellness is cause for medicine or other “reactionary” treatments, then you are heading in the wrong direction.

Wellness is about being proactive, and about making good choices for your body each and every day. This includes proper choices of diet, exercise, and ways to rest your body. All of these things contribute to greater spinal health, and a proper focus on the spine is a sure path to total wellness. When spinal health needs a little boost, seeking help from a specialist, rather than popping pain relievers or seeing a regular doctor, can mean all the difference in the world.

"We Focus On Your Spinal Health When Helping You Address Total Wellness!"

This, if for no other reason, is why this Special Report is so important. Why? You want to achieve a greater level of wellness, and you also need to know WHAT has been holding you back until now. Medication is not the answer, as it can dull pain, and does nothing to address even minor spinal problems. I can tell you from experience that most wellness seekers require only simple treatments and adjustments, to lessen the pressure on the spine, and dramatically improve overall wellness. Doesn’t that sound like a better way to proceed?

Addressing the root of complete wellness starts with understanding why you lack it. How would you feel if you endured the pain and expense of more complicated procedures, only to find out that a combination of stretching, targeted massage, and focused exercise would have been the answer all along? This may not be the answer for everyone, but the truth is that 90% of most medical solutions for greater wellness are unnecessary. When there is a simpler (and more accessible) answer that may be right for you, you deserve nothing less!

A better approach to wellness starts with a better overall approach to spinal health. Spinal health does not mean ignoring other life issues like diet, nutrition, exercise, and the like, as these are paths to continued wellness once your spinal health is in tip top shape. You might be surprised that what you’re doing (or not doing) on a daily basis could have a lot to do with your current lack of total wellness, and we focus on the “total you”, when you come see us.

Wellness Is Created By the Sum of Contributing Factors and Actions We Take”

Right now, it's that important for you to take some action in the right direction. Before you can start truly living your life again, you must discover WHAT is standing in the way of your total wellness, and what you can do NOW to right the ship.

Taking action NOW is as simple as picking up the phone. You can find out quickly and easily what we can do for you, by simply calling 303-998-1000 or clicking here. This will allow our team at Network Family Wellness Center to set you up with a FREE Wellness Consultation(Value up to $250!) The Consultation is FREE, and all you have to do is call!

When you decide to schedule your FREE Consultation, we promise to do our best to determine in what ways total wellness is currently lacking for you. Unlike other experiences you may have had before, we also promise to help you understand what wellness really means, because that is the true key to long-term success and health.

The key is to act now. The Free Wellness Consultation that we are offering to you today is a tremendous value and we won’t be able to offer it forever. Obviously we can't give away consultations for FREE for too long and still expect to have time to help all of our existing patients. So, don't lose this opportunity, fill out the form below now.

Information is only as useful as how it gets used to help you improve your life. Living without complete wellness is and without taking corrective action is no fun, and I have the client history and the experience so say: “I know what you’re going through!!”

You have the information you need to get started down a better road to feeling better. The time is now to stop procrastinating, and take action to find out what's the best path for you to a life of wellness.

I’ve made it easy for you to take the next step. Here's 's going to happen.

1. Simply give us a call at 303-998-1000. No obligations!!

2. We'll send you information about how to get your Free Wellness Consultation, with one of our specialists.

3. You decide when you want to come in and schedule an appointment for your Free Wellness Consultation.

4. You start your PROPER journey to a better tomorrow. In some cases, you’ll start to feel better, even after your first session!

You have everything to gain, give us a call and start your path to a healthier tomorrow. The only thing you have to lose is another day living your life short of your fullest potential, when it doesn’t have to be that way! Pick up that phone, and give us a call at 303-998-1000. You’ll be glad you did!

How To Avoid Diabetes Heart Disease and Obesity

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 21:46:47 MST

How To Avoid Diabetes, Heart Disease and Obesity!

id you know that Testosterone begins declining in men as early as the mid-30's and can result in an increased risk of diabetes, heart disease and obesity?

Something we all want to avoid. This condition is called Andropause. Symptoms of low testosterone levels include anxiety, reduced libido, loss of lean muscle mass and low stamina, as well as depression.

Do you suffer from any of these symptoms, or do you know any men with these issues?

The medical community has been very slow to recognize how serious this problem is and it is likely that your doctor has never discussed it with you before. There is however, good news.

They tell you it’s possible to increase your testosterone levels with testosterone injections. Unfortunately, this method can be very expensive, painful, and also come with increased risks for prostate cancer, as your blood must be checked on a regular basis to monitor for any possible negative side effects.

Here is REALLY GOOD NEWS!

A new and totally natural homeopathic crème is now available at this office. Itwill naturally increase your bodies levels of testosterone to levels that were previously only possible with expensive and potentially dangerous testosterone injections.

The testosterone level increases are nothing short of amazing, with none of the side effects associated with testosterone injections.

Here are the benefits that the subjects in our tests have reported and you may receive the same benefits within just 90 days!

1. Increased energy and stamina 2. Increase in Libido. 3. Ability to lift more weight during workouts. 4. Faster recovery from workouts with no sore joints 4. Increase in lean muscle mass. 5. Increase in testosterone levels in 21 days 6. Fat loss especially around the stomach area

You are the first to hear about this amazing new natural testosterone raising crème because you’re a patient here.

You can now have unlimited energy, gain lots of lean muscle, and reduce belly flab, and most of all, using this crème from West Coast Anti Aging will help you feel and look younger than ever before! www.boulderantiaging.com

Dr. Daniel Knowles. D.C. Network Family Wellness Center 303.998.1000 www.networkwellnesscenters.com

Chiropractic for Colds and Flu

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 21:23:34 MST

Chiropractic for Colds and Flu

Chiropractic for colds and flu? by Tedd Koren, D.C.

But isn’t chiropractic just for back pain? Not at all. Many people who initially visit chiropractors for aches and pains discover to their surprise an improvement in their general health, including no or fewer (and less severe) colds, flu and other respiratory problems.The Chiropractic ApproachChiropractic doesn’t “treat” cold or flu; chiropractic promotes improved body function which creates high natural resistance. Natural resistance is the only reason why your cold “goes away” rather than lasting for weeks, months or your entire lifetime!

How do chiropractors help raise your natural resistance to disease?

By removing a serious interference to your proper body function: vertebral subluxations.What Are Vertebral Subluxations?Vertebral subluxations (VS) are misaligned vertebrae in your spine that interfere with your nerves and the flow of information and energy between your brain and the rest of your body. VS lowers your natural resistance to disease by unbalancing your nervous system. You may have a subluxation and never know it.

Chiropractors Adjust Subluxations

Chiropractors perform spinal examinations to detect and locate vertebral subluxations in your body, then correct them by giving chiropractic spinal adjustments. This reduces or relieves your spinal nerve stress and helps restore optimal body functioning for higher resistance to disease, which, we cannot overstate, is the best defense against the common cold.

Flu shot season

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 20:57:35 MST

And now for something really scary: the flu shot. Since it’s “flu shot season” we think this information is quite timely. According to Hugh Fudenberg, MD, the world's leading immuno-geneticist and 13th most quoted biologist of our times (nearly 850 papers in peer review journals), if an individual has had five consecutive flu shots his/her chances of getting Alzheimer's Disease is ten times higher than if they had one, two or no shots.

What’s the connection between Alzheimer’s and flu shots? Dr. Fudenberg explained that the mercury and aluminum that is in every flu vaccine (and some childhood vaccines) is toxic to the brain.Eventually the mercury and aluminum buildup in the brain causes cognitive dysfunction.

(Is this the reason why Alzheimer's is expected to quadruple?)

Note: Dr. Fudenberg presented his research at the National Vaccine Information Center’s (NVIC) International Vaccine Conference, Arlington, VA September, 1997. Quoted with permission. Alzheimer's to quadruple statement is from John's Hopkins Newsletter Nov 1998.

Dr. Fudenberg's web address is www.nitrf.org. Interesting info there on treating autism and Alzheimer’s.

What is DHEA

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 21:40:28 MST

What is DHEA? Why we all Need it! (Now available for women as well)

DHEA is the abbreviation for dehydroepiandrosterone. You might say that it is a “chemical cousin” of estrogen and testosterone. If you said that, you’d be correct. These two hormones are made from DHEA and DHEA is made from cholesterol, by your adrenal glands.

DHEA helps form the hormones estrogen and testosterone. It is also responsible for body functions such as “fat” and “mineral” metabolism, and “stress” control.

More recently, a number of health claims have been made for DHEA. DHEA may be an “anti-aging” agent, because restoring its levels to those found in 20-years-olds appears to have a rejuvenating effect.

It is also said that DHEA can prevent or delay the hardening of arteries, lethal viral infections, lowered immunity, obesity, and diabetes.

How much DHEA do humans have?

For the first few years of life, the adrenal glands make very little DHEA. But then, around age six or seven, levels begin to increase, and DHEA production peaks when we are in our mid-20s. At this point, it is the most abundant hormone in circulation.

Once we hit our early 30s, production begins to decrease, and by the time we hit our 70s we only have about 20 percent of what we had 50 years earlier. By age 85, it’s down about 95 percent.

Are low levels of DHEA are associated with disease?

Some of the more interesting research and theories on DHEA have come from C. Norman Shealy, M.D., Ph.D., who has been studying this hormone for years. In his research, he has discovered that low levels of DHEA (along with low levels of the mineral magnesium) are found in nearly all diseases, and that the only diseases associated with normal levels of DHEA are schizophrenia and alcoholism. In one of his studies, Shealy looked at DHEA deficiency in chronic pain and depression (J. Neurol Orthop Med Surg 17, no. 6 [199]).

In 138 patients suffering from such diseases as depression, chronic headache, firbromylagia, spinal pain, and chronic pain, 93 percent were deficient in DHEA levels.

In an early human study, Dr. Barrett-Connor measured DHEA levels in blood samples taken from some 2,000 men and women between 1972 and 1974, and tracked the number of subjects who died from heart disease.

The original study, published’ in The New England Journal of Medicine in 1986, showed a 60 to 70 percent lower death rate from coronary vascular disease and ischemic heart disease for men with high DHEA levels, but a 23 to 103 percent increase in risk for women.

Now available for the first time, DHEA crème for women! If you want a DHEA crème that has had some amazing results, talk to the doctor or go to www.Boulderantiaging.com

Drs Daniel & Richelle Knowles, D. C., Network family wellness center, 1715 15th St. Boulder CO, 80302, www.networkwellnesscenters.com 303-998-1000

keep your holidays healthy

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 20:51:57 MST

Keep Your Holidays Healthy By Richelle Knowles, D.C.

The holiday season is upon us. It officially begins on Halloween and ends at the New Year. It is a time filled with parties, presents, food and lots of hustle and bustle. Americans on average gain 14 pounds from October 31st to January 1st. That means some people gain up to 21 pounds in a 2-month period. For some reason we have allowed ourselves to use the holidays as an excuse to stop taking care of ourselves. We feel we are too busy shopping, baking and traveling. We stop eating right and stop exercising on top of having the addition stress of traveling and dealing with family dynamics. First, there’s candy at Halloween. Our National day of giving thanks follows where rather than honor our bodies with a cleanse we have a Thanksgiving feast gorging ourselves until we cant eat anymore or until someone offers us another piece of pie. Of course we follow a day like that with a fast, rather than eating leftovers. The month of December is one holiday party followed by another with it all culminating on New Years Eve. Then comes January, when we are all ill we call it the “flu season”. As if none of our actions the last few months effected our susceptibility. How could we expect not to get ill after abusing our bodies for several months.

This is a time when we need to take care of ourselves even more, a time to be grateful and thankful for all the we have and all that we are. Keep yourself and your health a priority. Go to the gym, eat an extra serving of veggies instead that second piece of pumpkin pie, and find time to relax, focus inward, and contemplate your gratitude for your life and those that are part of it. Remember to stick to your recommended visit frequency and stay on track with your care.

Wellness is not about reacting to health conditions after they are severe. Nor is wellness about taking actions solely to prevent a condition. Wellness is not about a condition at all. Wellness is about being the greatest expression of your body’s inborn infinite wisdom that you can be so you can live with the greatest quality of life possible. A healthy spine and nerve system helps you adapt to the stresses and demands you put upon yourself. Your immune system is coordinated by your nerve system. Research demonstrates that Network is the greatest stress buster available on the planet. Time and time again we hear people say how differently that respond to and adapt to stress since they began receiving Network Care and how they get ill much less frequently. Make your holiday season a happy and healthy one. Don’t wait until the New Year to make your resolutions to be the best you. Keep your nerve system working at it’s best so that you can breeze through the New Year with joy and ease.

There’s Magic In A Healthy Spine!™

Adam Must Have Had A Cold

Sat, 12 Nov 2011 04:02:14 MST

Adam Must Have Had a Cold By Arno Burnier D.C.

Fall is here, and the cold season is rapidly approaching. Nearly everyone at one point or another will have a cold. In one year alone, Americans spend the equivalent of the national budget of all the Central American countries combined on cold remedies, a whooping $ 6 billion dollars, trying to alleviate or "cure" their colds. All this in vain at the expense of the liver, kidneys and over-all body chemistry, not to mention the pocketbook. In a futile attempt to gain temporary relief, we destroy our long range health. All drugs, whether over-the-counter or prescribed, have side effects. Our society still regards a cold as an illness we "catch" from someone who had it before us. Not so! A cold is a normal, natural cleansing process. It is our body's biological way of adapting to environmental changes which occur in the fall as we move into winter, and then again in the spring as summer arrives. Colds occur at times when all of life outside goes through profound changes. In the fall, trees are shedding their leaves, lawns are turning brown, animals furs are becoming thicker, bees are moving underground, the list goes on as all of nature undergoes transformation. By spring the resurgence of life can be seen everywhere as trees and shrubs buds, grass turns green, flowers spring up, and animals shed their winter coats. We, as human beings, are part of nature, not apart from it. We are alive and, just like the rest of nature, are going through similar changes. We label this a cold! The symptoms we experience-stuffy nose, sneezing, coughing, scratchy throat, running eyes and fever- are normal processes our body goes through in order to clean the sinuses and upper respiratory tract. In other words, a cold is the "menstruation" or shedding of the mucus lining of the sinuses and upper respiratory system. No amount of medication will stop the process. Instead, it will temporarily suppress the symptoms while rendering the body more toxic. As the late Dr. Robert Mendelsohn, M.D. put it in his book Confession of a Medical Heretic, "A cold with medication last a week. Without it, it last seven days!" Yet by suppressing the symptoms of a cold we may be paying dearly down the line. Recent studies have uncovered that during a cold, the body activate protein P53, an antimutagen agent instrumental in preventing cancer. Who knows if the increase in cancer rate may be due to something as simple as society interfering with a normal biological process. Contrary to popular belief, colds are not caused by viruses. Viruses may be present while we are colding but this does not make them the causative agent. England's Common Cold Research Unit established in 1946 in Salisbury has been a pioneering institution in the worldwide study of transmission, treatment and prevention of colds. Every year 400 volunteers spend weeks at the lavish research facility where they are given nose drops that contain Rhinoviruses. As of 1993, 47 years and 18,800 volunteers latter, only one third of the tested subjects ever get a cold And that is because the one third who react to the artificial, unnatural swabbing of Rhinoviruses have a weaken immune sytem to start with. Viruses do not cause colds, no more than flies bring garbage. Viruses may be present during a cold but they are not the cause of it. Chiropractic care clears the nervous system of interference caused by spinal subluxations. It allows the body to function better, express life more fully, provides greater resistance to sickness and disease and ensures greater immune response. In this sense, it facilitates the shedding, cleansing process of the cold. The only side effect of the adjustment is improved performance of the body and a greater ability to adapt to changes. So the next time you have a cold -remember- you did not catch it from someone who had it before you. If you did, that someone would have caught it from someone who had it before them. This would mean that Adam, the first man, must have had a cold to past it on to others down through history. However, there was nobody before him he could have caught it from!

What is Somato Respiratory Integration

Sun, 30 Oct 2011 12:15:49 MDT

What is Somato Respiratory Integration? SRI is a set of 12 exercises that utilize a combination of breathing, spinal movement & touch to increase your ability to be aware & connected in your body. The more unaware, or “checked out,” you are from your body experience, the more likely symptoms are to increase as a way of getting your attention back into your body. Noticing how your body breathes & moves gives you a “homing beacon” for locating and tracking you in the midst of all the busy input of your daily life. SRI exercises are useful on a daily basis for being more aware of your body’s natural rhythms, which helps your mind to become more relaxed & settled. This transition out of stress allows your mind to move beyond what’s not working and into the growth & thriving of what’s possible.

When your brain is paying attention to your body, it means that you are able to notice building tension as it’s happening, or shortly after. This mind-to-body connection allows you to make the necessary “adjustments” that will help you to regain your focus. It’s when we don’t notice this build-up, and are therefore unable to respond, that we get aggravated symptoms which sometimes feel like too much to handle. This build-up of tension can be due to the physical stress of moving in a specific or repeated way, or from a lack of movement. It can be caused from an overload of emotional input from changes in our environment or from conflicts that we don’t know how to resolve. Emotional tension can also build by not allowing ourselves to be expressive as we are experiencing our emotions. Sometimes, this build-up of tension occurs due to chemical exposure – from food, drugs, alcohol, cleaners, smoke, etc. – as the body’s ability to filter these pollutants is overwhelmed. And, other times, we actually need to recognize that tension is building to establish momentum for growth, so that we will have the fuel to create meaningful change at the right time. Through the support of these 12 simple exercises, you can gain access to the valuable internal cues that will help you to notice when this build-up of tension is happening. These cues are your body’s early-alert system for keeping you safe – from harm, accidents & injury – as well as helping you to be prepared to accept & ready to make changes when needed.

Somato Respiratory Integration was designed to partner with Network Spinal Analysis care, so that you’ll have the tools to successfully integrate the body, mind & emotional awareness that are essential for making progress in the different levels of Network care, as well as life. SRI is a perfect compliment for maximizing your investment of time, money & attention in your health because it makes the process of change more effective overall. It creates more organization so that you can learn, accept & adapt with less resistance and struggle. It produces more efficiency so that you have a better ability to improve your quality of life sooner than later. It also generates more satisfaction as you learn how to connect to what’s important to you through the resources of your creativity, clarity & presence – because when you bring more of YOU into your daily life, then your life can begin to be your own. This is the framework that SRI provides so you can come to know the ease that is real and the healing that is possible.

Stephanie Fabela Tognetti & Network Family Wellness Center offer private SRI sessions on FRIDAYS, from 2-6pm, and monthly Introductory SRI Wellness Workshops, as well as Intermediate & Advanced workshops periodically throughout the year. Call (303) 998-1000 to sign up for the Nov 19, Dec 10 or Jan 21 Introductory SRI workshops, and the Jan 28 Level 2 SRI workshop.

Fighting Fat With Coffee Fruit

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:32:52 MDT

By John Maher, DC, DCBCN, BCIM

Several epidemiologic studies have shown that a three- to four-cup daily consumption of coffee, whether caffeinated or decaffeinated, reduces the risk of developing insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes, as well as being effective in weight management.1-3The science strongly suggests that the phytonutrient chlorogenic acid is themajor reason for these effects.4Chlorogenic acid is also found in high amounts in cherries and plums, butcoffee is its greatest dietary source.5

Of course, levels of the phytonutrient will vary widely in different processed roasted coffee beans. Still, the dried raw green bean of the coffee fruit, especially the Robusta bean, is the richest source.

In vitrostudies show that chlorogenic acid (5-caffeoylquinic acid) inhibits glucose uptake in the small intestine, while also inhibiting the enzyme glucose-6-phosphatase, whichintervenes in blood glucose regulation.6Doing so shuts down the glucose pathway, causing the body to burn fat and use it as energy.

Nonetheless, scientists emphasize the synergic effect of coffee's components rather than one constituent. Fortunately, an all-natural water-soluble extract of raw, decaffeinated green coffee beans can be obtained by a traditional extraction method. This is important, as up to 70 percent of chlorogenic acids can be destroyed by roasting. Raw, dried, green coffee-fruit extracts can now be utilized as an ingredient in nutraceuticals and functional foods and drinks.

A high-quality, standardized extract of 400 mg has the chlorogenic content of up to seven cups of coffee, yet is free of some of the harmful acids in coffee (cafestol and kahweol), with only 25 percent of the caffeine. Raw green coffee bean extracts also contain quinic and caffeic acid, which possess strong antioxidant power, notably limiting the oxidation of lipids in the liver.7,8Indeed, raw green coffee beans have approximatelytwice the antioxidant powerof chocolate.9The extracts have been tested with an oxygen absorbance capacity rating (ORAC) of almost 9,000 per gram.

In a recentclinical studyusing 400 mg of green coffee bean extract versus a placebo and involving 50 people,10participants who received the bean extract lost 5.7% of their initial weight after 60 days of supplementation, corresponding to an average weight loss of 11 pounds. The placebo group lost 2.8 percent of initial weight. These effects are believed to be related to the reduction of up to half of post-prandial glycemia, secondary to a decrease of intestinal glucose absorption and an inhibition of glucose-6-phosphatase, as well as an increase of the release of energy stored as fatty acids in adipose tissue.

Based on this information, it is easy to make a latte with significant amounts of coffee antioxidants to support healthy blood sugar levels and healthy weight-loss programs. The recipe is as follows:

Brew 8 ounces of a robust, bold coffee blend (caffeinated or decaf).

Blend 8-10 grams of whey protein powder and ¼ tsp cinnamon with 2-4 ounces milk.

Stir cinnamon, milk and whey blend into coffee.

If added sweetness is desired, add stevia to taste.

The strong coffee provides a significant amount of chlorogenic acids and, if caffeinated, boosts metabolism. The lean protein from whey has a strong satiating effect. This will be even stronger if the whey protein also provides fiber. The herb cinnamon is an insulin mimetic, meaning it works like insulin. Specifically, it tends tolower insulin resistancethat occurs at cell walls, allowing our own natural insulin to get sugar inside cells to burn for energy.11And stevia, a natural, zero-calorie sweetener made from crystallized stevia leaves, has produced fair evidence that it helps support healthy blood sugar levels. Enjoy hot or cold!

References

Salazar-Martinez E, Willett WC, Ascherio A, et al.Coffee consumption and risk for type 2 diabetes mellitus.Ann Intern Med,2004 Jan 6;140(1):1-8.

Blum J, Lemaire B, Lafay S. Effect of a green decaffeinated coffee extract on glycemia: a pilot prospective clinical study.NUTRAfoods,2007;6(3):13-7.

Nardon K, Lemaire B, Lafay S.Green coffee extract Svetol® can manage weight: a review.AgroFOOD,2007;18(5 Suppl):37-9.

Ario WJ, Canfield WK, Ramos FC, et al.Chlorogenic acid and hydroxynitrobenzaldehyde: new inhibitors of hepatic glucose 6-phosphatase.Arch Biochem Biophys,1997;339(2):315-22.

Clifford MN.Chlorogenics acids and other cinnamates: nature, occurrence and dietary burden.J Sci Food Agric,1999;362-72.

Hemmerle H, Burger HJ, Below P, et al.Chlorogenic acid derivatives: novel inhibitors of hepatic glucose- 6- phosphate translocase.J Med Chem;40(2):137-45.

Chen JH, Ho CT.Antioxidant activities of caffeic acid and its related hydroxycinnamic acid compounds.J Agric Food Chem, 1997;45(7):2374-8.

Natella F, Nardini M, Giannetti I, et al.Coffee drinking influences plasma antioxidant capacity in humans.J Agric Food Chem;50(21):6211-6.

Richelle M, Tavazzi I, Offord E.Comparison of the antioxidant activity of commonly consumed polyphenolic beverages (coffee, cocoa, and tea) prepared per cup serving.J Agric Food Chem,2001;49:3438-42

Dellalibera SO, Lemaire B, Lafay S.Le Svetol®, un extrait de café vert décaféiné, induit une perte de poids et augmente le ratio masse maigre sur masse grasse chez des volontaires en surcharge pondérale.Phytothérapie,2006;4:1-4.

Huang DW, Shen SC, Wu JS.Effects of caffeic acid and cinnamic acid on glucose uptake in insulin-resistant mouse hepatocytes.J Agric Food Chem,2009 Sep 9;57(17):7687-92.

If you would like to receive a booklet featuring dozens of superfood recipes free of charge, e-mail Dr. Maher atjmaher@biopharmasci.com.

Reference: http://www.dynamicchiropractic.com/mpacms/dc/article.php?id=54632

Reorganizational Healing

Sun, 23 Oct 2011 16:25:43 MDT

Reorganizational Healing by Dr. Donald Epstein, D.C.

When we look at the world around us, there is one thing that is obvious: the future demands

new strategies.

Our planet is gripped with global warming, our countries continually use force and aggression

as ‘diplomacy,’ our communities are deteriorating, and our family structures are dissipating.

In short, new choices for humanity are needed.

At the core of this are the fundamental choices we make in OUR lives. Where we place our

focus determines where we are headed. Imagine driving down the road in your car, but you

can only look in the rear-view mirror. Where would you end up if you only guide yourself by

returning to where you were? How about looking out the front window? Are you headed

toward a different place? You are in the same seat, facing the same way, yet where you focus

determines where you end up. The key is looking ahead, developing the strategies, and

making the choices that move us there.

So what does this mean to an individual who is moving toward healing himself or herself and

the world? When we look at the predominant culture, we see many people choosing to return

to the old. I refer to this as Restorative Healing.

There are several common assumptions underlying Restorative Healing:

1) Something is disturbing the way a person was feeling and living his life;

2) This disturbance is wrong and must be stopped;

3) By stopping the symptom, crisis, or disturbance the individual can resume as closely to

possible his previous life routines and actions;

4) Success is return to a previous and familiar place.

But where does this leave the individual – that previous or familiar place? Looking in the rearview mirror gets you to where you were. Is this needed in life sometimes? Absolutely! But all

the time? Returning to the previous state rewinds the clock, but doesn’t necessarily change

the outcome – it simply delays it.

There is no going back. So how do we heal our future? Reorganizational Healing.

Reorganizational Healing is defined as an approach to healing and life that seeks to both

optimize existing structures and fields of influence, bringing them into a more dynamic, aware,

and responsive state while producing new sustainable emerging properties that can assist in

self regulation, growth and evolution of the systems.

In contrast to Restorative Healing, the common assumptions underlying Reorganizational

Healing are:

1) Something is disturbing the way a person was feeling and living his life;2

2) This disturbance suggests that a change in perception or action is necessary in some

aspect of the individual’s life;

3) Although uncomfortable and disruptive of the life a person is living, the symptom, crisis, or

disturbance are instructive and not an adversary;

4) Success is creating a new energy efficient emergent state that is at a higher level of

organization within the body, its consciousness, and one’s life.

You see, when we look at the world around us - our communities, our families, or ourselves -

we have two choices, restore to the old or create something new.

Laurence J. Bendit, M.D. wrote, “Healing is basically the result of putting right our wrong

relations to our body, to other people and..…. to our own complicated minds, with their

emotions and instincts at war with one another and not properly understood and accepted by

what we call 'I' or 'me.' The process is one of reorganization, reintegration of things which

have come apart.”

Remember Humpty Dumpty? You know, the nursery rhyme…

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.

Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.

All the king's horses and all the king's men

Couldn't put Humpty together again.

(Original by Lewis Carroll)

I think it is one of the simplest examples of how Reorganizational and Restorative Healing

come into context.

All the king’s horses and men couldn’t put Humpty together again. Sounds like Restorative

Healing, doesn’t it? We need to ask ourselves, “What if going back doesn’t put the pieces

together again.” Once the egg is out of the shell, how do we get it back in? Was the full

potential of the system being reached if it stayed within the shell? Maybe it’s time to make an

omelet!

Reorganizational Healing doesn’t look to return to the old, but instead to right our

relationships – to ourselves and those around us. In doing this, we increase the resources

that we have to draw upon; and, more importantly, we increase the resourcefulness that we

have in our lives. Ultimately, our future depends on this resourcefulness – not only for our

own well-being, but also for our entire planet.

Look around you to see how Reorganizational Healing shows up in your life and the world

around you. You’ll be amazed at what you discover.

For more information on Reorganizational Healing, visit www.wiseworldseminars.com where

you can listen online to Donny Epstein unveil the fundamentals of Reorganizational Healing.

alkapod

Sun, 23 Oct 2011 03:56:48 MDT

In today’s world, convenience is a crucial part of our lives. Alkaline,ionized waterproduced right at the kitchen tap is a luxury appreciated by all who own anionizer! It’s understood, however, that it is nearly impossible to carry an Athena everywhere we go and sometimes very inconvenient to carry containers full of water to our jobs, etc. In response to the problem, IonWays offers the AlkaPod, a device designed to convert regular, treated water (tap or bottled) into alkaline, ionized water – it’s perfect for when you’re on the go!

Get Your Portable Water Ionizer Today

The AlkaPod is capable of raising the pH of the source water by up to 2 points and reducing the ORP by up to -200 mV. This means that, if you use a source water with let’s say a 7pHand an ORP of +60 mV, the AlkaPod is will alter it to around a 9 pH and an ORP of about -140 mV. Although the filtration capabilities of the AlkaPod are limited, it does help reduce common contaminants such as chlorine and can even help alleviate heavy metals and toxins. Rest assured that the AlkaPod’s food-grade, stainless steel design and unique internal filter are patented and certified as 100% safe from contamination or leaching.

When you are getting ready to use yourAlkaPodfor the first time, it’s very important for you to follow 3 simple steps to ensure that it’s performing at an optimal level (these steps also need to be completed each time you purchase an AlkaPod Replacement Filter):

1. Rinse the AlkaPod prior to use with water warmer than 90°F (32°C), but cooler than 120°F (49°C). Let cool. The filter must be inside the AlkaPod to activate.

2. Repeat process.When you are not using the AlkaPod, take out the top filter and store it in a cool, dry place.If you realize a decrease in the AlkaPod’s performance, place the top cartridge in white vinegar and soak for 3-5 minutes. Remove the cartridge from the vinegar and rinse thoroughly with tap water and proper filtration should be restored. If possible, sun-dry the cartridge after cleaning/rinsing.

Never pour milk, coffee, tea, carbonated drinks, or any liquid other than water into the AlkaPod. If this occurs, follow the vinegar soak and rinse process specified above.

Measuring 8-inches tall and weighing only one pound, the AlkaPod is not bulky or heavy and is ideal for those who are constantly on the go. Maintenance for the AlkaPod is easy – simply change the filter every 3 months or so (based on daily consumption of 2-3 liters).

Source: IonWays Flow: Vol. 1, Issue 41

The Looming Obesity Crisis

Sun, 23 Oct 2011 03:45:45 MDT

By Dr. Christie Ducote

The Lancet, a prestigious British medical journal, published a shocking report this week concluding that over half of Americans will be clinically obese by the year 2030. The Center of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) defines obesity as a person having a BMI, or body mass index, of 30 or higher. A person’s BMI is correlated with their amount of body fat.The report stated that not only will there be huge health consequences, but also worsen the burden of health care on our economy. Obesity has been clinically proven to have direct associations between many life-threatening conditions including diabetes mellitus, hypertension, ischemic heart disease, cancer, and stroke. The current cost of obesity alone in the United States is $270 billion a year.Most importantly, being obese and battling diseases for the rest of your life can steal you and your family of the most amazing quality of life that you deserve.Hormones, toxins, inflammation, lack of sleep, and stress make up several of the barriers that make you weight loss resistant. Overcoming this resistance requires understanding. You can’t just spend more time on the treadmill or restrict calories more – and why would you want to? What you do need to do is address several elements involved.The most cutting edge nutritional protocols out there today give you a diet based on hormones. This plan reduces inflammation, gets hormones under control, and reduces stress in the system.Toxins bind to fats and block or damage gland function. Both of these issues that toxins create can stop fat loss in it’s tracks and cause fat store and accumulate.By addressing hormones, reducing inflammation, and teaching you how to lower toxic exposure and get poisons moving out of your system – you can overcome weight loss resistance. It may sound hard and complicated, but we give you a simple formula that’s easy to follow

Dis Ease

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 02:06:51 MDT

As you read the word “disease,” the first thing that goes through your mind is someone is sick. They have heart problems, lung failure, kidney disease, stomach difficulties, AIDS, etc.

Medicine looks at disease as something that attacks us from the outside in, almost as if someone was standing around a corner, jumped out, and attacked you. As a result, you were struck with a heart attack. When the body is diseased, the doctor looks at the disease as a single entity or event and at the human body as a bunch of pieces and parts. He then treats that disease. If this has been your understanding of “disease,” it is time you know there is new research proving this concept false!

Doctors have two basic concepts regarding the treatment of disease. The first concept uses medication (antibiotics, muscle relaxers, anti-inflammatory drugs, etc.). This is obviously an “outside in” technique. The second concept uses the treatment of surgery (repair or removal of the organ, muscle, tissue, etc.) — again, “outside in” technique.

The NEW “disease” concept literally looks at sickness or unhealthiness, as “dis-ease” (lack of ease). Your body is divinely designed with a very powerful system in the human body called the “immune system” that is controlled and powered by the nervous system. Chiropractors, with the new and proper “healthcare thought process,” find sickness/disease not to “attack” from the outside in, but literally resulting from a lack of the ease or proper function. Over time, dis-ease erupts into symptoms and ultimately disease and premature death.

This powerful thought process requires simply understanding that our body is a self-healing, self-regulating, self-perpetuating organism. And the answer to all dis-ease is already within the body. We basically need to look for, detect, identify, correct, and remove the interference. Only then will we establish “ease” in the body, resulting in a long, healthy and full life.

Chiropractors parallel this concept. What has been discovered is that the major cause of dis-ease is due to interference in the central nervous system caused by a condition called vertebral subluxation. This is when the spinal column shifts out of position, choking off vital life force and nerve energy from the brain to the body. Chiropractic adjustments correct this subluxation, giving you your best chance for ease to return and to experience your ultimate levels of health.

its not the germs we need to worry about acid alkaline balance

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 01:24:33 MDT

“It is not the germs we need worry about. It is our inner terrain.”

~ Louis Pasteur

Acid Alkaline Balance

Excess acidity is a condition that weakens all body systems.

Excess acidity forces the body to borrow minerals - including calcium, sodium, potassium and magnesium - from vital organs and bones to buffer (neutralize) the acid and to safely remove it from the body. As a result, the body can suffer severe and prolonged ‘corrosion’ due to high acidity – a condition that may go undetected for years.

It andaffects virtually every person in our society because of the way we live, the way we eat, and the environment we live in. The result is an internal environment where disease can easily manifest, as opposed to a pH-balanced environment which allows for normal body functions - necessary for the bodyto resist disease. It is true that if we have a healthy body, we will maintain sufficient alkaline reserves to meet emergency demands. However when excess acids must be continually neutralized, our alkaline reserves are depleted, leaving the body in a weakened, disease-prone condition.and

Unfortunately, there are still many practitioners who believe that the body can somehow miraculously and ‘naturally’ balance its pH - as if we were living in nature and eating raw foods and herbs. The truth is so far beyond this ideal. The truth - according to Dr Lynda Frassetto, acid/alkaline researcher from the University of California, is that we have turned an evolutionary corner.

We simply do not handle acid waste the way we used to. Her research showed the sheer volume of acid waste our body has to handle has forced it to take drastic ‘war’ style action to preserve its strategic reserves - the kidney and liver - our major essential detoxifying organs.

In her study of almost 1,000 ageing subjects, she found that we are now ‘stockpiling’ acid in fatty deposits rather than eliminating it via the kidneys and liver. In its infinite wisdom, the body has chosen to save the kidney and liver from degradation by excess acid.

Of course, there is a cost. It’s called obesity, lowered immunity, lack of energy and the whole host of acid related diseases we are subject to including cancer, diabetes, osteoarthritis and more - much, much more.

alkalize your body with alkaline water at www.yourbestalkalinewater.com

alkaline water with the alkapod

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 01:06:00 MDT

In today's world, convenience is a crucial part of our lives. Alkaline, ionized water produced right at the kitchen tap is a luxury appreciated by all who own an ionizer! It's understood, however, that

it is nearly impossible to carry an Athena everywhere we go and sometimes very inconvenient to carry containers full of water to our jobs, etc. In response to the problem, IonWays offers the AlkaPod, a device designed to convert regular, treated water (tap or bottled) into alkaline, ionized water - it's perfect for when you're on the go!

Using thirteen different types of minerals, including tourmaline, zeolite, and Maifanshi stone, the AlkaPod is able to alter the pH of source water by up to 2 points and reduce the ORP by up to a -200 mV. Although the filtration capabilities of the AlkaPod are limited, it does help reduce common contaminants such as chlorine; zeolite is used to absorb and retain heavy metals and toxins. In addition, Maifanshi stone not only helps absorb toxins, but also supplies trace minerals! The tourmaline in your AlkaPod produces negative ions (measured as ORP) and also reduces the size of water molecule clusters, which helps the body absorb more water. You can rest assured that the AlkaPod's food-grade, stainless steel design and unique internal filter are patented and certified as 100% safe from contamination or leaching.

Measuring 8-inches tall and weighing only one pound, the AlkaPod is not bulky or heavy and is ideal for those who are constantly on the go. Maintenance for the AlkaPod is easy - simply change the filter every 3 months or so (based on daily consumption of 2-3 liters).

Beat the Morning Blues

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 23:28:09 MDT

"Beat the Morning Blues"

One of the biggest roadblocks to a productive day is feeling tired or drowsy -it hinders your ability to think properly, make sound decisions, and communicate effectively with others. You lack energy and clarity of thought when you're tired and the last thing you want to do is fall asleep at your desk (or, even worse, behind the wheel!).

To follow are some simple ways to help to prevent that tired, drowsy feeling without pumping yourself up with coffee, soda, tea, or acidic energy drinks.

Enough sleep! Everyone is different, but a general rule of thumb is to get about 7-8 hours of sleep every night. Try having a cup of herbal tea about an hour before you go to bed to help you relax.

Exercise-try incorporating an exercise regime into your morning routine. Even if it's just 15-30 minutes, it can jump-start your day with an extra boost of energy!

Eat breakfast! Many people skip breakfast simply because it's inconvenient, "I don't have time!" Having breakfast in the morning helps provide the fuel you need throughout the day. And we're not talking about sugary cereal! Try oatmeal, eggs, or fruit-you'll feel better and more energized!

Excitement! Think of something in the day to which you can look forward, something that will motivate you to get out of bed and start your day! Stay away from negative thinking and negative emotions-these can be overwhelming and contribute to drowsiness. Get positive and get going!

There are a ton of ways to help you feel energized and alert in the morning -open a window and let the fresh air and sunshine into your home, drink a big glass of alkaline, ionized water, stay determined, and don't forget to smile and stay positive - it'll do a world of good for your outlook on life!

Nutritional nerve support

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 00:35:15 MDT

Nutritional nerve support

Current research shows that many supplements and nutraceuticals have added benefits for patients’ neurological health.

By Lynn Toohey, PhD reprinted from chiropractic economics

You may be curious about what specific nutrients offer the best support for the nerves and the nervous system. There are many that can be helpful. The following combinations recommended have been compiled from research in this area.

One particular area of focus is resveratrol, the agent in red wine that has gotten so much press in the anti- aging arena. Yet, many scientists are discovering the potent properties that resveratrol exhibits in other areas as well, especially when it comes to nutritional nerve support.

Resveratrol

Referred to as a “good candidate for treatment of metabolic neuropathy” by researchers who published data inNeuroscience Letter,1resveratrol has made the news for neuronal support. Additionally, resveratrol was called “neuroprotective” by Albani, et al., who published an article titled, “Neuroprotective properties of resveratrol in different neurodegenerative disorders.”2

Abstract:The natural phytocompound resveratrol has been considered for many years a potential anticancer drug, but recently it has come to the attention of neuroscientists too, as it displays neuroprotective actions and activates the sirtuins’ family member SIRT1. SIRT1 is involved in several physiologic and pathologic processes including apoptosis, autophagy, diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular disorders, and neurodegeneration. Resveratrol has neuroprotective features bothin vitroandin vivoin models of Alzheimer’s disease, but it has proved to be beneficial also in ischemic stroke, Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease, and epilepsy.

Breaking news:Recently, an article published inMedical Hypothesessuggests resveratrol may have value in the treatment of complications from diabetes.”3In the paper, the authors hypothesize that “resveratrol treatment and subsequent activation of SIRT1 pathway might be highly beneficial for patients with diabetic foot syndrome, a late-stage complication of type 2 diabetes, which originates from interplay among impaired tissue regeneration, vasculopathy, neuropathy, and inflammation all on the background of insulin resistance.”

Their prediction is based on a variety of evidence linking resveratrol and sirtuins to the restoration of insulin sensitivity, improvement of microcirculation, and tissue regeneration, and gains in the function of peripheral nerves and cytokine production.

The researchers call for more clinical trials to be conducted in this highly promising area.

Fish oil

Fish oil is another supplement to consider for nutritional nerve support. A review article published in August 2011 reported that the signaling influence of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) in fish oil has widespread effects on the nervous system. The paper describes the key roles that omega 3s play in the powerful support of various organ systems, especially where neurodegeneration is a concern.4

It’s well-known that polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) are important lipids that must be obtained from dietary sources or via supplements. Omega-3 and -6 PUFAs are key components of membranes and they are vital to cell integrity and function.

Abstract:The essential omega-3 fatty acid family member docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) is avidly retained and uniquely concentrated in the nervous system, particularly in photoreceptors and synaptic membranes. DHA plays a key role in vision, neuroprotection, successful aging, memory, and other functions. In addition, DHA displays anti-inflammatory and inflammatory resolving properties in contrast to the proinflammatory actions of several members of the omega-6 PUFAs family.

The review also discusses DHA- derived bioactive lipids, “which include neuroprotectin D1 (NPD1), a novel DHA-derived stereoselective mediator. NPD1 synthesis agonists include neurotrophins and oxidative stress; NPD1 elicits potent anti-inflammatory actions and prohomeostatic bioactivity, is anti-angiogenic, promotes corneal nerve regeneration, and induces cell survival.”

Other sections of the review focus on the significance of DHA on aging, and the role it plays in evolving studies on Alzheimer’s disease, macular degeneration, Parkinson’s disease, and other neurological disorders.

Another case of fish oil support:Omura reports successful resolution in many cases, utilizing the powerful effects of the eicosapentaenoic acids (EPA) and DHA fatty acids in fish oil.5

He notes that when peripheral nerve fibers are hypersensitive from nerve injury due to viral infection, “use of Vitamin B1 25 mg, two times a day for an average adult often accelerates recovery time.”

As an anti-viral agent for the herpes virus family, Omura found that EPA at doses between 180 mg and 350 mg (depending upon body weight) four times a day for two to six weeks, without prescribing the common anti-viral agent Acyclovir, often eliminated the symptoms due to

viral infection, including all well- known types of the herpes virus, such as herpes simplex virus, Epstein-Barr virus, and cytomegalovirus.

Synergistic support for the nerves

There are several other nutrients that have made the news for their support of the nervous system, and a few are presented here, for a synergistic effect that maximizes the various mechanisms by which they all work.

Curcumin’s overall effect on neuroglial cells has been described as “decreased astrocyte proliferation, improved myelogenesis (growth of new myelin sheaths around the nerve bundle), and increased activity and differentiation of oligodendrocytes.”6

Sulforaphane is found in high concentration in broccoli sprouts.The Journal of Neurosciencereported that it activated an antioxidant response and “conditions neurons against oxidative insult.”7Several sources confirm that sulforaphane protects the brain and brain neurons.8

Garlic is a potent antioxidant.The Journal of Neurosciencereported that an ingredient in garlic enhances the antioxidant system responsible for protecting against neuronal loss.9

Ginkgo biloba has been called a “neuroprotector,” and the action of protection is described as the ability of ginkgo to detoxify, act as an antioxidant, and normalize energy transfer in brain neurons.10

Quercetin “contributes significantly to the protective effects on neuronal cells from oxidative stress-induced neurotoxicity.”11

Niacin is one of the nutrients that provides mitochondrial support and conserves growth factor receptors, and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (made from niacin) has proven to be of clinical benefit in dementias and nerve disorders.12

Chromium supports nerve growth and has also been reported to be “one of the most researched nutritional supplements in conjunction with peripheral neuropathy.”13

There are many nutrients that have been studied for nerve support, and research is continually coming out that supports their use. The nutraceutical research in this area is proving to be a constant wonder.

Lynn Toohey, PhD, received her doctorate in nutrition from CO State University in Ft. Collins, Colo. She has lectured to chiropractors, chiropractic associations, and other health professionals across the country on nutrition-related topics, and has published numerous articles in peer- reviewed journals. She can be contacted atinfo@nutri-west.netor throughwww.nutriwest.com.

References

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2Albani D, Polito L, Signorini A, Forloni G. Neuroprotective properties of resveratrol in different neurodegenerative disorders.Biofactors.2010 Sep;36(5):370-6.

3Bashmakov YK et al. Resveratrol may be beneficial in treatment of diabetic foot syndrome.Med Hypotheses.2011;doi:10.1016/j.mehy.2011.05.016.

4Bazan NG, et al. Docosahexaenoic Acid signalolipidomics in nutrition: significance in aging, neuroinflammation, macular degeneration, Alzheimer’s, and other neurodegenerative diseases.Annu Rev Nutr.2011 Aug 21;31:321-51.

5Omura Y. Treatment of acute or chronic severe, intractable pain and other intractable medical problems associated with unrecognized viral or bacterial infection: Part I.Acupunct Electrother Res.1990;15(1):51-69.

6Ambegaokar et al.Neuro Endocrinol Lett.2003;24:469-73.

Ambegaokar SS, Wu L, Alamshahi K, et al. Curcumin inhibits dose-dependently and time-dependently neuroglial proliferation and growth.Neuro Endocrinol Lett.2003;24:469-73.

7Kraft AD, Johnson DA, Johnson JA. Nuclear Factor E2-Related Factor 2-Dependent Antioxidant Response Element Activation by tert-Butylhydroquinone and Sulforaphane Occurring Preferentially in Astrocytes Conditions Neurons against Oxidative Insult.J Neurosci.4 February 2004;24(5):1101-1112.

8Ping Z, Liu W, Kang Z, et al. Sulforaphane protects brains against hypoxic-ischemic injury through induction of Nrf2-dependent phase 2 enzyme.Brain Res.2010 Jul 9;1343:178-85. Epub 2010 Apr 24.

9Wassef R, et al. Methionine sulfoxide reductase A and a dietary supplement S-methyl-L-cysteine prevent Parkinson’s-like symptoms.J Neurosci.2007 Nov 21;27(47):12808-16.

10Head KA. Peripheral neuropathy: pathogenic mechanisms and alternative therapies.Altern Med Rev.2006 Dec;11(4):294-329.

11Filomeni G, et al. Neuroprotection of kaempferol by autophagy in models of rotenone-mediated acute toxicity: possible implications for Parkinson’s disease.Neurobiol Aging.2010 Jun 29. [Epub ahead of print]

12Kidd PM. Neurodegeneration from mitochondrial insufficiency: nutrients, stem cells, growth factors, and prospects for brain rebuilding using integrative management.Altern Med Rev.2005;10(4):268-293).

13Head KA. Peripheral neuropathy: pathogenic mechanisms and alternative therapies.Altern Med Rev.2006;11(4):294-329.

Alcohol Attributed to Most Cancers

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:39:20 MDT

A European study found that "an important proportion of cases of cancer can be attributable to alcohol consumption, especially consumption higher than the recommended upper limits." The "upper limits" were defined as one drink per day for women and two drinks per day for men.

Here in the states, alcohol use has also been linked to increased risk of several types of cancer for years, including cancers of the mouth, throat, voice box, esophagus, liver, breast and colon. How does alcohol affect the body?

The American Cancer Society warns long-term alcohol use has been linked to an increased risk of liver cancer. Regular, heavy alcohol use can damage the liver, leading to inflammation. This, in turn, may raise the risk of liver cancer. Regular consumption of even a few drinks per week is also associated with an increased risk of breast cancer in women. This risk may be especially high in women who do not get enough folate in their diet or through supplements. Alcohol can affect estrogen levels in the body, which may explain some of the increased risk. Reducing alcohol intake may be an important way for many women to lower their risk of breast cancer.

In addition, alcohol use has been linked with a higher risk of cancers of the colon and rectum. The evidence for such a link is generally stronger in men than in women, although studies have found the link in both sexes.

As part of its guidelines on nutrition and physical activity for cancer prevention, the American Cancer Society recommends that people who drink alcohol limit their intake to no more than 2 drinks per day for men and 1 drink a day for women. The recommended limit is lower for women because of their smaller body size and because their bodies tend to break down alcohol more slowly.

Reference: http://www.toyourhealth.com

Krazy About Kale

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:36:45 MDT

On the hunt for a nutritious, vitamin-packed vegetable that is also loaded with great flavor? Try kale. There are many reasons to pile this cruciferous veggie on your plate. It is low in calories, has zero grams of fat and contains nearly 20 percent of the RDA of dietary fiber, which promotes regular digestion, prevents constipation, lowers blood sugar and curbs overeating.

Need more reasons? Kale also contains the glucosinolate isothiocyanate (ITC), which fights the formation ofH. pylori(Helicobacter pylori), a bacteria that can attack the digestive system and cause big problems. Kale is also a superstar in the arena of carotenoids and flavonoids, two powerful antioxidants that protect our cells from free radicals that cause oxidative stress. There are also tons of vitamins in kale – think vitamins C, D, A and K. All boost immunity, help maintain healthy bones and teeth, and maximize overall health. Enjoy!

Reference: http://www.toyourhealth.com

Dodging Diabetes

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:24:43 MDT

The number of adults with diabetes worldwide has more than doubled since 1980 to a mind-numbing 347 million, officially making it a global epidemic. But believe it or not, there's good news about diabetes: There are a number of ways to combat and even outright prevent this growing disease.

As the 7thleading cause of death in the United States,diabetescosts the nation $174 billion annually, including $116 billion in direct medical expenses. In addition, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 79 million Americans – one-third of the nation's adult population – has prediabetes, a condition in which blood sugar levels are elevated, raising a person's risk of type 2 diabetes, heart disease and stroke. In fact, according to research, having diabetes increases the risk of death fromallcauses.

For example, in examining data involving 820,900 subjects enrolled in 97 published studies, John Danesh, from the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom), and colleagues found that high fasting blood sugar levels ( >100 mg/dL) not only doubles vascular death risk, but also substantially raises the risk of death from nonvascular causes, including cancer and infectious diseases. Subjects with diabetes were 80 percent more likely to die from any cause during the study period. The researchers found that diabetics were at 2.32-fold higher adjusted risk of death from vascular causes, as compared to nondiabetic counterparts; and at significantly elevated risk of death from cancer and other non-vascular, noncancer causes including pneumonia and other infectious diseases, mental disorders, nervous system disorders, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Diabetics are also at increased risk of developing aging-related diseases. Men and women in their 50s with diabetes have nearly double the risk for developing cognitive impairment, incontinence, falls, dizziness, vision impairment and chronic pain compared to same-age counterparts who do not have diabetes. Because diabetes affects multiple organ systems, it has the potential to contribute significantly to the development of a number of health issues that we associate with aging.

Today, nondrug interventions such as nutritional supplementation, smart dietary choices, and lifestyle changes are becoming more widely recognized as key approaches to reduce the risk of diabetes and/or manage the condition if you've developed it. Let's review some of these strategies and help ensure a healthier, happier, diabetes-free you.

More Magnesium Matters

Whilemagnesiumis found in dietary sources such as green leafy vegetables, meats, starches, grains, nuts and milk, a number of surveys suggest that many adults fail to consume the Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA) for this essential mineral. Frank Christoph Mooren, from the Institute of Sport Sciences at the Justus-Liebig University (Germany), and colleagues enrolled 52 men and women in a study in which each received either a magnesium supplement (containing magnesium-aspartate-hydrochloride at a dose of 365 mg per day) or placebo for six months. At the study's conclusion, the team found that two out of three measures of insulin sensitivity had improved significantly in those receiving the supplemental magnesium compared to the placebo group, and blood sugar levels, measured as fasting levels of glucose in the blood, had improved by about 7 percent in the magnesium-supplemented group compared with placebo.

Grab Some Grapes

A daily dose of the polyphenolresveratrol(found in purple grapes, red wine,peanutsand some berries) may prove useful in the treatment and/or prevention of type 2diabetes. Researchers from Hungary's University of Pecs studied 19 people with type 2 diabetes. Participants were randomly assigned to take resveratrol supplements (10 mg/day) or a placebo for four weeks. Results showed that insulin resistance decreased significantly in the participants who received the resveratrol.

A Walk in the Park

Previously sedentary middle-aged men and women whowalked10,000 steps (about 5 miles) daily demonstrated marked improvement in insulin sensitivity.

Terry Dwyer, from the Murdoch Children's Research Institute (Australia), and colleagues investigated the relationship between daily step count and both adiposity (obesity) and insulin sensitivity. The team studied 592 non-diabetic adult men and women, average age 50-51 years at the study's start, for a five-year period. Many participants were already overweight (57.4 percent of men, 36.9 percent of women) or obese (17.7 percent of men, 16.0 percent of women) at the outset and then gained additional weight over the five-year study period.

During the study period, most subjects became more sedentary as well, with 65 percent showing a decline in step counts. The researchers found that sedentary individuals who changed their habits to walk an extra 2,000 steps (about 1 mile) a day might expect to shave 0.16 kg/m2off their body mass index (BMI) and boost insulin sensitivity by 2.76 units. Further, a relatively inactive person who achieves 10,000 steps (about 5 miles) per day could expect their BMI to drop 0.83 kg/m2 and their insulin sensitivity to rise 13.85 units – a 12.8 percent increase from the average for men and 11.5 percent for women. The team calculated that sedentary individuals who reach 10,000 steps per day might improve their insulin sensitivity threefold compared with increasing daily activity to 3,000 steps five days a week.

Get Your Omega-3s

Consumption of omega-3 fatty acids may help to improve key markers of insulin resistance, thereby reducing the risk of diabetes. Giuseppe Derosa, from the University of Pavia (Italy), and colleagues studied 167 subjects, each of whom received either 1 gram of omega-3s (concentrated EPA and DHA), or 1 gram of placebo (a capsule containing sucrose, mannitol, and mineral salts) three times a day, during meals, for six months. The team found that the group which consumed the omega-3 capsules showed improvements in HDL cholesterol and plasma triglyceride markers compared to placebo. After challenging the subjects with an oral fat load, the researchers found that the group takingomega 3capsules showed an improvement in all parameters, include insulin resistance biomarkers, while there was a neutral effect with placebo.

Amino Acids on the Way

L-carnitine is an amino acid (building block for protein) that helps the body to produce energy. The nutrient is also important for proper heart and brain function, muscle movement, and a number of other body processes. Stuart Galloway, from the University of Stirling (Scotland), and colleagues enrolled eight lean and eight overweight / obese men in a 14-day study. The men received 3 grams of L-carnitine or 3 grams of glucose per day with their meals. Subjects then underwent an oral glucose tolerance test, which involved feeding them 75 grams of glucose and then measuring the effects. The team found that blood sugar levels were significantly lower in the L-carnitine group of lean men as compared to the glucose-fed lean men 30 minutes after ingestion. Blood glucose levels were also higher in the group of overweight / obese subjects 90 minutes after ingesting L-carnitine compared to placebo.

Defend With Dairy

Circulating levels of trans-palmitoleic acid, the fatty acid contained in dairy products, may reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes. Trans-palmitoleic acid is a naturally occurring fatty acid in dairy fats, and on a biological basis it may mimic its counterpart, cis-palmitoleic acid, a fatty acid produced in the body that protects against diabetes. Dariush Mozaffarian and colleagues, from Harvard School of Public Health in Massachusetts, examined data from a study that followed 3, 3736 adults enrolled in a cardiovascular health study. The researchers found that those adults with the highest circulating levels of trans-palmitoleic acid had the lowest risk of type 2 diabetes. Specifically, those subjects with the highest levels of trans-palmitoleic acid were found to be at 60 percent lower risk of developing diabetes compared to the subjects at the bottom 20 percent.

The Power of Healthy Living

Among diabetics, sustained benefits are achievable when choosing to follow key anti-aging tenets in dietary choices and physical activity.

Osama Hamdy, from the Joslin Clinic in Massachusetts, and colleagues enrolled 141 patients with diabetes: 127 with type 2 diabetes and 14 with type 1 diabetes. Average patient age was 53 and average time from diagnosis was about 9.5 years; the average baseline weight of the participants was 240 pounds. The supervised lifestyle modification program included an interdisciplinary team that involved a diabetologist, a registered dietitian, a clinical exercise physiologist and a psychologist.

The dietary intervention gave patients a choice of 15 dinner meals, two meal replacements, and snacks designed to meet the clinic's nutritional guidelines for diabetics; a diet plan that included 40-45 percent carbohydrates, 20-30 percent protein, and less than 35 percent fat. The researchers also put the patients through a structured strength and cardiovascular exercise program that gradually increased activity. For the first four sessions, patients were encouraged to exercise 20-40 minutes four days a week; during the next four days the exercise prescription was increased to 40-45 minutes five days a week; and in the final four sessions patients were told to exercise 50-60 minutes six days a week. Patients also attended weekly teaching and behavioral support sessions.

At the conclusion of the 12-week program, participants were instructed to follow the same plan on their own. Subjects with a mean glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) of 7.6 percent at the study's start (higher amounts indicate poor control ofblood glucoselevels) were able to lower the level to 6.6 percent after the 12-week program and keep it at 7 percent even after three years. In addition, the team reported that subjects experienced an average weight loss after the 12-week study of 24.1 pounds.

Stop the Epidemic

With diabetes rates absolutely skyrocketing and far too many people turning to diabetes medication to "control" their symptoms, you can help stop the epidemic – starting with you and your family – by following the diabetes defense strategies outlined above. Best of all, they're fundamentally simple: nutrition, exercise and a healthy lifestyle; all things you should be pursuing anyway. Dodge diabetes and reap the health rewards. Talk to your doctor for more information.

Key Terms to Understand

Diabetes:A group of metabolic diseases characterized by high blood sugar, either because the body produces little or no insulin (type 1) or because the body does not make enough insulin and/or cells do not respond well to the insulin produced (type 2).

Insulin:A hormone manufactured by the pancreas that removes glucose from the bloodstream and into muscle, fat and liver cells where it can be utilized as fuel.

Glucose:A sugar that enters the bloodstream when food is digested. Glucose is the primary source of fuel (energy) for the body.

Insulin sensitivity / resistance:A decreased ability for the body to use insulin to remove glucose from the bloodstream. The body produces insulin, but does not utilize it well.

Blood glucose levels:The level of glucose in the bloodstream. People with insulin sensitivity / resistance will have higher levels of glucose in the bloodstream because of an impaired ability to remove it, which can lead to diabetes.

Reference: Author -Drs. Ronald Klatz and Robert Goldman

http://www.toyourhealth.com

Boulder Chiropractor Recommends Krill Oil for Omega 3s

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:02:44 MDT

Whether fish-derived or vegetarian, omega-3 has become a household term. Supplement sales continue to grow, and more and more foods are being fortified with the healthy fatty acids. But getting omega-3 foods into the mainstream remains a challenge.

Mainly, omega-3 is derived from fishes but lately there have been studies that show omega 3 can be found not only in the fish or vegetables but also in shrimps. Krill are tiny shrimp gaining attention as a rich source of omega-3, as well as other nutrients. There are about 85 species of the deepwater marine planktonic crustacean, or deepwater shrimp, which are the planet's most abundant animal biomass and which when captured and converted to oil, pack 48 times the antioxidant punch of standard fish oils.

Krill oil is a newly discovered source of omega 3 acids. Various claims are made in support of krill oil as a superior source of omega 3 fatty acids. The effect of krill oil, at a lower dose of EPA + DHA (62.8%), was demonstrated to be similar to that of fish oil.

“Surprisingly, a dose of EPA and DHA derived from fish oil modulated fewer pathways than a krill oil-supplemented diet and did not modulate key metabolic pathways regulated by krill oil, including glucose metabolism, lipid metabolism and the mitochondrial respiratory chain.” Despite the changes in gene expression, no changes in blood levels of lipids, glucose or insulin were observed.

Data provide support for a role of krill oil in ameliorating abnormalities seen with obesity and insulin resistance.

"Clearly this study demonstrates that omega-3 fatty acids in phospholipid form, which is abundant in krill oil, is more bioactive than the corresponding triglyceride form of the omega-3 fatty acids,” said Dr Jamie Barger of LifeGen Technologies.

Lifepak® Nano provides an advanced nutritional foundation for a long and healthy life—full of vitality and energy—free of debilitating conditions associated with nutritional deficiencies and the aging process. It contains krill oil that regulates genes in the liver and influence the production of glucose, fat and cholesterol metabolism. Krill oil was associated with a down regulation of genes in the liver associated with the production of glucose, and those associated with lipid and cholesterol synthesis.

Benefits of Drinking Boresha Coffee

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 12:23:17 MDT

Coffee is the second most highly-traded commodity on earth, “coffee” serving worldwide over 1 billion cups every day. But there is only one fat-burning coffee drink that provides energy without increasing your metabolic activity.

BSkinny™ combines the great flavor experience of Boresha's Certified 100% Fair Trade Organic AA Arabica coffee with a proven fat-burning blend. While there is some evidence that regular caffeine intake at mealtime can possibly impair some individuals' ability to manage blood sugar and insulin levels, BSkinny™ has been designed to counteract this possible effect with its proprietary blend of buffered caffeine and BSweet™ low-glycemic sweetener. BSkinny™ thermogenic fat-burning coffee offers even energy and stable blood sugar levels.

BSkinny is 100% organic and is certified that no pesticides, synthetic materials, or non-organic methods were used in any step of the cultivation, harvesting, shipping, roasting or packaging process. Using organic materials it could make a cleaner, purer product for the consumer.

BSkinny is the only product of its kind in the world. Our scientific team engineered a better way to produce coffee that does not cause a negative reaction in the body. It is healthy, organic and proven to burn fat. With Boresha’s BSkinny, you can feel and gain energy while burning fats at the same time. It provides thermogenic fat burning that is achieved by the intake of some dietary element, and not increase any physical activity. It is a hundred percent patented hunger controls and combats stress related eating. Every beans are infrared roasted for smooth, bitter-free taste and is easy to the stomach.

What is the point of energizing your body if you're stimulating fat storage at the same time? So switch from fat storing to fat burning coffee. Experience burning fats without doing any exercise, Boresha BSkinny is the only product that could provide you all of this benefits. And it offers you an opportunity to become part of something worthwhile, important and exciting. You can build financial independence for you, your family and loved ones and at the same time directly impact the lives of children in need.

Daniel Knowles (Independent Distributor)

1715 15th street, Boulder, CO 80302

Phone: 3039981000

Website: www.getskinnydrinkingcoffee.com

A Call for Reorganisation

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 13:29:25 MDT

A Call for Reorganisation

As chiropractic looks towards the horizon of health care in the coming years, one certainty is change and with it the need to reorganise. The changing landscape is seen everywhere around us – in governments, companies, communities, and families – all having to look within to find resources for reorganisation. The same is true when it comes to healthcare.

Today’s imperative for the chiropractic profession is to reassess the way we rlook at health and wellbeing. The need to reorganise the perceptions, behaviours and structures of health and healing has been more evident. Robert Blanks, PhD, an internationally acclaimed neurologist, writes about the need to “bring about changes in individuals, helping them to develop new resources so that these individuals use the health challenge consciously to effect changes in their lives and bring about greater understanding and increased ability to thrive under most circumstances!.” As chiropractors, we are perfectly positioned to help bring this change about, however we cannot do it while looking into rear-view mirror. Instead we must lead our communities forward as we journey towards the future.

Reorganisational Healing was featured in the May 2009 Issue of the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. This is defined as an approach to healing and life which seeks to optimise existing structures and fields of influence, bringing them into a more dynamic, aware and responsive state, while producing new sustainable emerging properties which can assist in self regulation, growth and evolution of the systems. It is not unique to a particular profession, discipline or methodology; it is a model to bring about fundamental and sustainable change. Today’s existing health care models, systems and applications require reorganisation.

Restorative Therapeutics (the general cultural baseline – and is observed in contrast to Reorganisational Healing) seeks to climate, reduce, control, restore or return a person to a prior minimal state. Patient compliance is based on the emotions of fear and helplessness. In Restorative Therapeutics there is no intent to help improve the human condition or help the patient attain increasingly more complex or deeper levels of health/wellness exceeding what existed before onset of the symptom, condition or crisis.

Restorative Therapeutics helps both the individual and society a whole to move away from the very processes and experiences which can give more meaning, direction and understanding as well as the impetus to create fundamental change and progress. A system which at best seeks to return a patient to the state of health experienced immediately prior to a crisis fails to produce greater health, wellbeing or perpetual and behavioural changes. To seek optimal states, self-reliance and expression of inner wisdom, a different paradigm is needed. Since chronic illness and ongoing treatment of disease is a norm in the system, something more, and we daresay something radical, is needed to anticipate and create optimisation.

What is our chiropractic focus and objective and how do we know that we are nurturing reorganisationa change in our practices? There is no doubt that outcome and evidence based measures are fundamental to ensure that we are must be able to deliver new evolving, more efficient and empowered state, spines and levels of well-being associated with ongoing measurable assessments.

The time is now for our profession to reorganise and take a leading role as health care’s agents of change. Encouraging widespread adoption if health promoting behaviours, as well as philosophical tenets that will foster the reorganizational healing of all patients is a worthy goal that will help to redefine our discipline.

1. Blanks RH. Reorganisational Healing: A Health Change Model Whose Time Has Come. Journal Alternative Complementary Medicine. 2009 May;15(5):461-4

2. Eipstein DM, Senzon SA, Lemberger D. Reorganisational Healing: A Paradigm for the Advancement of Wellness, Behaviour Change, Holistic Practice and Healing Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. May 2009;15(5):461-64. Available free on line at www.eorganisationalhealing.cm

Donny Eptein is the founder and developer of Network Spinal Analysis, Somato Respirtory Integrtion and Reorganisational Healing, and lectures internationally on NSA, wellness and concepts of cultural and human transformation. Jackie Knowles Epstein is a leading thought developer in Reorganisational Healing and co-developer of the Epstein models of healing, wellness and of Network Spinal Analysis. Dan Lemberger is one of the world’s leading authorities on Network Spinal Analysis and co-author of the ground-breaking Reorganisational Healing paper.

Benefits of Chiropractic Wellness care Boulder Chiropractor

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 13:23:41 MDT

Benefits of Chiropractic Boulder

Chiropractic adjustments affect the chemistry of biological processes on a cellular level. Chiropractic patients receiving “maintenance care” for five years or longer, when compared with US citizens of the same age, spent only 31% of the national average for health care services. There is a shift toward a healthy autonomic nervous system balance after correction of vertebral subluxation. We face a formidable challenge. Yet it is one within our reach.a

That’s where CLA comes in. For two decades, Dr. Gentempo and Dr Kent have assembled a world-class team to provide chiropractors with the tools to provide the certainty, credibility, and communications to achieve excellence in chiropractic practice.

The breakthrough they achieved is the development of the Insight Discovery™ system and the Neurospinal Functional Index™. This system provides objective measurements of sensory function, motor function, autonomic function, adaptability, and spinal motion. The results of five examinations (which can be performed by a CA in most states) are integrated to generate a single number which is easy to understand. Our vision is for the Neurospinal Functional Index™ to become as well accepted and understood as blood pressure and cholesterol numbers.

We need this because the health benefits and cost savings that can change the healthcare landscape were only seen in patients who were under long-term care. Long-term chiropractic care of two or more years re-established a normal physiological state in patients. Chiropractic patients receiving “maintenance care” for five years or more spent only 31% of the national average for health care services

If your patients quit when their pain disappears, or their benefits run out, they will not experience the full potential of chiropractic care. This places an awesome responsibility on your shoulders: effectively communicating the need for care; and objectively demonstrating improved function after the symptoms have disappeared.

The inside discovery subluxation station permits the chiropractor to be a more effective clinician, by using objective measurements to deliver the most effective chiropractic care possible.

chiropractic patients save money and visit doctors less

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 13:22:50 MDT

Chiropractic Study

A Landmark study was conducted by Dr. Ron Rupert and his team at Parker College. The study surveyed 311 chiropractic patients, aged 65 years and older, who had received chiropractic care for 5 years or longer. Despite similar health status, chiropractic patients receiving “maintenance care” for five years or longer, when compared with US citizens of the same age, spent only 31% of the national average for health care services. The chiropractic patients also experienced 50% fewer medical provider visits than their comparable peers.

This, and similar studies were the basis for Doctor Kent's testimony to the Senate Appropriations Committee. While people have not yet seen research appropriations for chiropractic wellness care, they are slowly making inroads among decision makers in Washington.

You can read Dr Kent's Senate testimony here: http://www.worldchiropracticalliance.org /tcj/2004/mar/kent.htm

According to the study, “It was concluded that the multi clinic study of chiropractic care on the heart rate variability has demonstrated consistent changes in HRV and VAS in patients who participated in this study. The decreased heart rate and increased total power from the HRV analysis indicated a healthy autonomic nervous system balance after correction of vertebral subluxation.”

What do these studies have to do with your future? The answer is “everything.” Heath care in the United States currently consumes about one in every six dollars spent in the United States, and will consume an estimated one in every five dollars by the year 2015. It is projected that by the end of the next decade, the government will be paying about half of the nation’s medical costs. A report from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services estimated that both government and private spending for health care will average $12,320 per person in 2015, almost double the 2005 figure of $6,683. The nation’s health care bill could total more than $4 trillion in ten years. (U.S. Health Care Bill by 2015: $4 Trillion. abcnews.com. 2/22/06).

Maximizing your health so you're not dependent on allopathic drugs and surgery procedures is a key to your wellbeing as well as your financial future.

Chiropractic study, published in the Journal of Vertebral Subluxation Research, was reported in Medical News Today. You can read this report at http://www.medicalnewstoday.com /medicalnews.php?newsid=20809 . The study was also featured in mercola.com, the world’s most popular natural health newsletter. See “Doctors Crack Code on Chiropractic Care http://www.mercola.com/2005/apr/27/chiropractic.htm . News items also appeared in Natural Health magazine, and other publications, producing tremendous positive press for chiropractic as a long-term wellness strategy.

Just as exciting, the study is listed in several biomedical indexes, including MANTIS, CINAHL, and Google Scholar. This means that researchers using these indexes to locate articles on chiropractic, oxidative stress, and DNA repair will find this study. You can see the abstract at http://www.jvsr.com/abstracts/index.asp?id=243 .

Chiropractic Boulder Chiropractic and DNA repair

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 13:21:31 MDT

Chiropractic Leadership Alliance (CLA) is the technology leader in chiropractic. Thousands of doctors and millions of patients have benefited from the use of our Insight™ technology. Yet many doctors of chiropractic may not realize that the CLA vision goes far beyond the development and manufacturing of instruments to objectively measure nervous system function. We are interested in a result, not merely a product. The result we are seeking is improved quality-of-life through lifestyle-based chiropractic care.

CLA is proud to have supported a landmark study where chiropractors collaborating with researchers at the University of Lund found that chiropractic care could influence basic physiological processes affecting oxidative stress and DNA repair. The study examined serum thiols in patients under short-term and long-term chiropractic care.

Serum thiols are primary antioxidants, and serve as a measure of human health status. The test provides a surrogate estimate of DNA repair enzyme activity, which has been shown to correlate with lifespan and aging. Comparing serum thiol levels in nearly 50 patients receiving short- or long-term chiropractic care with controls, researchers found:

Independent of age, sex or taking nutritional supplements, long-term chiropractic care of two or more years re-established a normal physiological state in patients. Patients receiving chiropractic care showed higher mean serum thiol levels, compared to patients with active disease, and produced some values that were higher than normal wellness values.

Simply stated, as we live life, we are subjected to physical, biochemical, and psychological stress. Our ability to repair damaged DNA is an important factor in health and longevity. Oxidative stress is now a broadly accepted theory of how we age and develop disease. Oxidative stress results in DNA damage, and inhibits DNA repair. In short, we now have evidence that chiropractic adjustments affect the chemistry of biological processes on a cellular level.

What is HGH Human Growth Hormone

Sun, 18 Sep 2011 23:09:18 MDT

What is HGH? (Human Growth Hormone)

HGH Risks and Side Effects

RISKS of synthetic HGH injections include:

Extreme swelling in your arms and legs

Elevated blood pressure

Moderate to intense muscle, nerve and joint PAIN

Contributes to both diabetes and heart disease

HGH Health and Beauty Benefits

Increase calcium retention to increase bone density

Stimulate the immune system

Reduce excess body fat

Reduce wrinkles and other signs of aging on the skin

Slow the progression of cardiovascular disease

These effective and safe crèmes are available in this office, check with the front desk or www.boulderantiaging.com

Drs Daniel and Richelle Knowles, D.C. 1715 15th St. Boulder, CO 80302

Restoration of the Cervical Curve and Improvement in Neurological Function in a Patient Following Network Spinal Analysis

Sun, 18 Sep 2011 22:54:13 MDT

Restoration of the Cervical Curve and Improvement in Neurological Function in a Patient Following Network Spinal Analysis

Tara Rohrbach DCBio, Daniel Knowles DCBio, Richelle Knowles DCBio

Annals ofVertebral Subluxation Research ~ September16,2011 ~ Pages99-103

Objective:To describe the restoration of a cervical curve following Network Spinal Analysis™ (NSA) chiropractic care in a patient with neck pain.

Clinical Features:The patient presented with a chief complaint of neck pain. Radiographs were taken and demonstrated an Atlas Plane Angle measurement of 12° and a cervical Absolute Rotation Angle (ARA) of 10°, representing a cervical kyphosis.

Intervention and Outcomes:The patient received NSA care that consisted of Network adjustments entailing light contact to specific regions of the patient’s spine. Follow up radiographs were taken after one year of care. The radiographs demonstrated significant sagittal curve improvement with an Atlas plane line measurement of 32° and an Absolute Rotational Angle (ARA) of -27°.

Conclusion:Successful chiropractic care was described in this case by improved measurements in the cervical curve. The Atlas plane line improved by 18° and the Absolute Rotation Angle improved by 37°. More research is warranted in this area.

Key Words:cervical curve, kyphosis, lordosis, Network Spinal Analysis, chiropractic, entrainment, tensegrity, subluxation, surface electromyography, thermography

original article link

http://vertebralsubluxationresearch.health.officelive.com/2011_1150_nsa.aspx

Insights that Change Destiny Second Part

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 13:49:46 MDT

Redefining Moments Insights that Change Destiny: Part 2Donny Epstein, D.C.Early in my chiropractic practice, three events forever shifted my professional trajectory. These events would lead me to explore the reorganisation of my patients’ spines in relationship to their lives, and to formulate concepts about the fundamental relationship between structure, behaviour and perception. Moreover, they would set the stage for a very powerful research agenda, having broad implications for the chiropractic profession and consumer, as well as for the academic community and public at large.The first event involved a rude and antisocial patient who with progressing care demonstrated significant positive personality, behavioural and spinal changes. He however believed he was still no different because his pain remained. I asked his son what he liked most about his dad since he was coming to see me, and his response was that his father no longer beat him or his mother. Hearing this resulted in an emotional and spinal shift in the father that would transform his health and the family’s dynamics in a most wonderful way. For me, I realized that beyond symptoms there were significantly more behavioral and perceptual outcomes that needed to be assessed. This lead to wellness and quality of life research and a new culture for practicing chiropractic. The second event involved a woman with autoimmune disease who re-traced a rape and transformed its meaning and somatic sensory motor associations. With this, for her there were new insights, resolution of the illness and a more fulfilled life. For me, this lead to a better understanding of the relationships between unexperienced or unprocessed emotions, the spine and psychosocial influences - and later, the inclusion of emotion in my evolving model of spinal and neural integrity. Unbeknownst to me at the time, the third and perhaps most impactful event would set into motion rigorous and productive research at several universities. New understandings of the spine, neurophysiological models, and novel applications would follow which would set the course towards my future professional and personal destiny.The Third Event: Producing the Network Wave.While clinically obtaining a significant restructuring of the spine and its adverse spinal cord tension patterns, I observed a wave like undulation taking place along the spines of a few patients. These patients experienced new perceptual insights and emotions, as well as a restructuring of their spines. The presence of this wave, now called the Network, or Somatopsychic Wave, was one of the factors studied relative to self-perceived wellness. It, along with a respiratory wave, was a predictor of significant improvement in self reported wellness, stress busting, behavioural changes, and overall life enjoyment.In 1997, Professor Edmond Jonckeere of University of Southern California (USA) began studying the Network Wave. Since then, he has determined that the mathematics of the sEMG signal of this wave evolves with the progression of NSA care, and is a benchmark for the spinal organisational strategies. The Network wave is currently the subject of investigation at several universities for its unique properties as a central pattern generator, individual identifier, and its associated enhanced spinal learning and synaptic connection. This area of study will help the Chiropractic profession to better understand how the spine and nervous system can self regulate and grow. Further papers will suggest, based upon this research, that the synapse may be predominately an acoustic wave phenomenon. This, I am sure, would be no surprise to Chiropractic’s founder, DD Palmer, who stated that chiropractic was founded on tone.Underlying chiropractic practice is the implicit relationship between structure (the spine), behaviour (of the spine and in life), perception (of the spine, of body and of life), and energy. I refer to this as the Triad of Change. It can answer most of your patient’s questions about why spinal change and transformation can lead to other changes in their life, and how the other life change they desire has a spinal component that may need to be addressed. The ability to care for patients with consistent outcomes of growth and positive development is paramount to the chiropractic practice of tomorrow. In summary, all developments have a back-story. These three events are major markers in Network’s back-story. In practice we all have had moments of insight, that change the way we look at the world, and require us to step-up to a new level of accountability. Are you holding yourself to a high enough standard and always looking to reorganize to a higher level? In today’s world every industry is peddling as fast as it can to keep up with the need to redefine and evolve. In redefining our outcomes we will also be redefining the image of our profession. Helping individuals to reorganise their spine and life, with discernable outcomes, assessments and milestones is perfectly suited for needs of the public in our rapidly changing world.Dr. Donny Epstein is the founder and developer of Network Spinal Analysis, Somato Respiratory Integration and Reorganisational Healing. He is the author of Healing Myths, Healing Magic, 12 Stages of Healing, The Boomerang Principle, and most recently, The Somato Respiratory Integration Workbook. For more information about Donny Epstein, Network Spinal Analysis Care, and Reorganisational Healing visit www.wiseworldseminars.com*Article references can be supplied

Insights that Change Destiny

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 13:48:09 MDT

Redefining Moments

Insights that Change Destiny: Part 1Donny Epstein, D.C.Early in my chiropractic practice, three events forever shifted my professional trajectory. These events would lead me to explore the reorganisation of my patients’ spines in relationship to their lives, and to formulate concepts about the fundamental relationship between structure, behaviour and perception. Moreover, they would set the stage for a very powerful research agenda, having broad implications for the chiropractic profession and consumer, as well as for the academic community and public at large.The First EventIn 1984, a very angry and anti-social patient with persistent back pain came to my office. My clinical assessment showed continuing improvements. In addition there were marked changes in his demeanor. He was friendlier. He began telling jokes. (Although they were not funny, it was a start!) One day, he even asked if he could use the reception area at lunch break to practice magic tricks for the children who came to the office after school. While it was evident he was displaying healthier behaviours, attitudes and perceptions, I did not have specific outcomes or communications to link his changes to the spinal improvement I was seeing. When I remarked to him about changes I’d noticed, his response was quick, “No doc, I’m still the same; it hurts right here”.His son joined him at the office one afternoon. Astute observers that children are, I asked little Tommy what he liked best about his daddy since he began visiting my office. Tommy thought for a moment and replied, “He stopped hitting me and punching mummy in the face”. Father and son embraced, and the father cried for the first time in over a dozen years, not even having shed a tear at his parent’s death. Little did I know, Tommy’s response would inspire my clinical and personal direction from that day forward.

fewer meds equals better health

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 15:14:07 MDT

Fewer meds = better health

For a long time, people believed they could get healthy by taking medicines. Yet, in recent years there’s been a lot of publicity about the dangers of prescription and over-the-counter drugs. The result is a trend away from medicines and toward natural health care. Sadly, however, many people still take far too many pills.

In fact, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, prescription drug usage in the United States is continuing to rise. A recent report finds the number of prescriptions filled each year increased by 39% between 1999 and 2009, and the amount of money spent was $234 billion in 2008. The average American fills 12 prescriptions each year!

It shouldn’t be this way, according to a new research study that concluded both livesandmoney would be saved if medical doctors prescribed FEW drugs. What’s surprising is that the research was conducted at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) College of Pharmacy! The report appeared in the online edition of theArchives of Internal Medicineas part of that journal’s “Less is More” series.

According to Bruce Lambert, the paper’s co-author and UIC professor of pharmacy administration, several studies over the past decade have concluded that the use of many new and frequently prescribed medications was either harmful or not beneficial to patients.

Medical doctors need to move away from the mindset that they need to prescribe the “latest and greatest” new drugs. Instead, they should prescribe fewer and only time-tested medications, said Dr. Gordon Schiff, associate professor of medicine at Harvard University, who co-authored the report.

The top “principle of conservative prescribing” suggested by the researchers is one that doctors of chiropractic already practice: The report urged people and their doctors to: “Consider non-drug therapies such as diet, exercise or physical therapy; look for and treat underlying causes rather than just mask symptoms with drugs; emphasize prevention rather than treatment.”

Another research project, this one conducted in Great Britain and published by theBritish Medical Journal, found that general practitioners prescribed high-risk medications for thousands of patients who – because of their health history or status – should never have received them.

Researchers pointed out how improper prescribing can cause considerable harm, and noted that “adverse drug events [negative side effects] account for 6.5% of all hospital admissions, over half of which are judged to be preventable.”

Dr. Russ Altman, a professor of bioengineering, genetics and medicine at Stanford University said, "Many side effects from drug interactions (not all) are exacerbations of known side effects of the single drugs that are made worse by the two drugs together." Dr. Altman co-authored a study in the journalClinical Pharmacology and Therapeuticsthat found a widely prescribed antidepressant used in conjunction with a common cholesterol-lowering medication caused unexpected increases in blood sugar levels.

When it comes to prescription and over-the-counter drugs, the medical journal’s right – less IS more!

Original article at www.thechiropracticJournal.com

Growing the Right Way With Chiropractic

Mon, 05 Sep 2011 23:06:13 MDT

reprinted from To Your HealthJuly, 2011 (Vol. 05, Issue 07)By Kevin M. Wong, DC

A healthy spine is essential for good overall health. Like adults, a child's neck and spine need to be in proper alignment to facilitate good posture, movement and functionality. Understand the fundamentals of child spinal development and you'll quickly understand why your child can benefit fromchiropractic care.

As a chiropractor treating patients every day, I get asked a lot of questions. One of the most common questions posed to me is, "Why do children need to go to the chiropractor? They are so young. They don't need to be adjusted, do they?" The answer to this question is a resounding "Yes!" Let me take you on a journey of understanding so you can see why kids and chiropractic go hand in hand.

I remember when 6-year-old Tucker (name has been changed for privacy) came in to see me for the first time as a patient. I had been treating his mother for over five years, and I had met him when he accompanied her on occasion. Tucker had been playing with one of his friends when he fell and hurt his neck. His neck was stiff and in so much spasm, he could not turn his head to the right. He was scared and his mother was concerned about whether he needed to go to the pediatrician.

After assessing his neck, I determined that his neck muscles were so tight that they had misaligned his neck vertebrae. I explained what was happening to him and then used very gentle methods to realign his spine. He was relieved to feel much better after we worked with him. The next day, he was almost back to normal.

Basics of Child Postural and Spinal Development

When babies are born, their bones are mostly cartilage, which is strong and flexible. Their muscles are underdeveloped, so they can't hold up their own head. Over the first few months of life, their muscles strengthen and they develop the ability to coordinate movement.

By three months of age, most babies can lift their head while lying on their stomach. At around six months of age, they can roll from their stomach onto their back, and by nine months they can sit unassisted. Babies then begin to crawl, and by their first birthday most are able to stand. As their spine and muscles develop - along with their confidence - they begin to walk.

When a baby is born, the spine is "C shaped." This changes at around the age of three months, when the curve in the neck develops and the baby gains control of head movement. The bones, ligaments, discs and muscles around the spine gradually become stronger and more coordinated, protecting the spinal cord and nerves within.

The curve in the baby's lower back develops as the baby starts to crawl, and is further developed as the baby begins to stand and walk. The C-shaped spine eventually changes into an "S shape" that will form the adult spine. This S shape gives the spine its flexibility and allows a greater range of movement, helping children's bodies to cope with the slips, jolts and falls that are part of growing up.

In most cases, the spine develops as a straight, upward structure. At times, there can be a side-to-side curvature calledscoliosis. Scoliosis can vary from mild to severe. The more severe a scoliosis, the more likely internal organs and other structures can be stressed or compromised.

Your Child's Spinal Health

How do you know if your child is on track developmentally? To help determine your child's spinal health, perform this simple test. Look at your child and see how the spine looks when they are standing (facing away from you) with their shirt off.

Does the spine appear straight or mostly straight? If you see a curve either to the right or the left, make a note of how it looks to you. Then, have the child bend forward and see if the curve disappears. This is helpful information to tell your chiropractor when you bring your child in to see them. Early detection of spinal health concerns will likely offer more effective treatment options.

Also, look at your child's feet. Do they seem to walk with one foot turning outward? Do they appear to have flat arches? As a parent, you can help identify any "interesting" ways your child might be walking, standing or running. How do you know what to look for? You can always compare them to their siblings and other children their age. Then talk to your chiropractor, who is trained to know what to look for and can help you make sense of your observations.

Why Chiropractic Care During Childhood Is Beneficial

Remember that children have a spine, just like you and I do as adults. Kids go through their daily activities of playing, running, riding their bikes, playing sports, falling down and roughhousing with their friends. Their spines and the bones that make up their joints can move out of alignment, just like adults; sometimes even more so, since they are so active and often "throw caution to the wind" in terms of personal safety.

Just as you believe in getting regular tune-ups from your dentist, medical doctor and your optometrist, make sure your children benefit from that type of thinking as well. Most of the aches and pains that we go through as children (and as adults) can be greatly helped by getting adjustments from a doctor of chiropractic.

The youngest patients could see the biggest benefit from chiropractic care. Think of an infant who, during birth, has their head, shoulders or neck pushed against the mom's pelvic bones. Or perhaps the child had a difficult birth and was stuck in the birth canal at an odd angle. There is spinal stress associated with those scenarios, and the baby can be born with their spine out of alignment as a consequence.

Babies respond quickly to adjustments. Often common infant/toddler conditions like ear infections, colic and irritability can be improved with adjustments to their spine. Start them off right while they are young and they will keep those good habits into adulthood.

Straightening Up America

"Straighten Up America" is a bold and innovative health promotion initiative designed to empower the American people toward better spinal health and an improved quality of life. This national program also serves as the prototype for an international health promotion initiative.

The vision driving Straighten Up America is very simple. It envisions a time when every American will take two or three minutes every day to care for their spinal health, just as they care for their dental health. The need for spinal health promotion is great, as evidenced by the billions of dollars that are spent each year related to disability from low back pain alone.

Before the creation of this initiative, there was no short, simple, engaging spinal exercise program specifically designed to promote the public's spinal health. But now, you can apply the Straighten Up America initiative to your life and that of your family by performing spinal health exercises and getting your spine checked by your chiropractor on a regular basis.

Our children are truly amazing beings; as we watch them grow from infancy to adulthood, the wonders never cease. Their bodies are constantly changing, and it is often challenging to keep them functioning in a healthy, happy manner. Take the time to establish good health patterns, including spinal health, for your whole family. Talk to your chiropractor for more information.

Kevin M. Wong, DC,a 1996 graduate of Palmer College of Chiropractic West in San Jose, Calif., practices full-time in Orinda, Calif.

Research Highlights Quality of Life Improvement

Sun, 28 Aug 2011 21:36:47 MDT

Chiropractic care can help people enjoy a higher quality of life. Whenever research is done to see if aparticular procedure has an effect onwellness, the question must be asked, “Is this intervention truly benefiting the overall health of the patient or are we just treating symptoms or having a minimal effect on this patient’s life?”

Concern must also be given to whether or not the procedure causes other problems to show up as a result of being used. For example, long-term aspirin use for chronic headaches eventuallycausing intestinal bleeding or kidney failure.

Many studies have revealed some interesting information and conclusions:

A New Zealand study of 89 patients showed improvement in physical state,mental/emotional state and combined wellness. It alsosuggested that health and wellness may add up with time under chiropractic care.

A survey of 2818 patients in the U.S., Canada, Australia and Puerto Rico receiving Network Chiropractic Care also foundimprovements in quality of life and found the benefits began as soon as 1-3 months afterbeginning care and showed no indication of reaching a point ofmaximum improvement.That is, things just kept getting better.

An Italian study of 17,142 patients under chiropractic care for at least two years indicated that having everyone under chiropractic care could reduce the number ofhospitalized patients by 87.6% and daily absences from work could bereduced by 55-75%.

This research points out some very good reasons that everyone needs to be under chiropractic care.

Chiropractic patients use medical services less

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:20:56 MDT

Chiropractic patients usemedical services less

The June 1996 issue of Topics in Clinical Chiropractic

reports that older patients who use chiropractic health care

services end up using less medical services such as hospitals,

nursing homes and prescription drugs.

In a study of geriatrics by the Rand Corporation it was found

that 96% of the population studied who use chiropractic had

not used nursing home services in the three years before the

study. 81% of those who had not received chiropractic care

didn’t need the use of a nursing home, a 15% less nursing

home usage by the chiropractic patients.

In hospital use, chiropractic patients fared even better. 74% of

the people under chiropractic care did not need the use of a

hospital in the three years prior to the study versus 53% of the

study group not under chiropractic care; a 21% difference.

87% of those patients under chiropractic care perceived

themselves to be in good to excellent health. Only 68% of

those not under chiropractic care thought their health good to

excellent. Put simply, chiropractic works. ▲

Your Belly May Tell You If You Are at Risk for Heart Disease

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 10:20:45 MDT

Your Belly May Tell You If You Are at Risk for Heart Disease from mercola.com

Does your Dad or beloved Uncle George have the proverbial beer belly? According to two recent studies, men with "central obesity" may be more likely to develop high blood pressure and insulin resistance (a condition in which a person loses his or her ability to respond to insulin) than men who gain weight in other areas, putting them at risk for heart disease and diabetes.

Body mass index (BMI) is widely used for the classification of overweight (BMI 25) and obesity (BMI 30) in men and women. BMI correlates reasonably well with laboratory-based measures of obesity and is extremely practical in most clinical settings.

However, BMI does not account for the wide variation in body fat distribution, the nature of obesity across different individuals and populations, and the joint relation of body composition and body size to health outcomes. Many studies have reported that body fat distribution is a more powerful predictor than is BMI for risk factors, diseases, and mortality.

Increased organ or abdominal adipose tissue in particular have been shown to be more strongly associated with heart disease and a variety of chronic diseases.

Waist circumference (WC) is a convenient measure of abdominal adipose tissue and is unrelated to height correlates closely with BMI and total body fat, and is associated with cardiovascular disease risk factors independent of BMI.

How was the first study conducted?

In the first study of over 700 men between 25 and 75 years of age not taking medication to lower their blood pressure, blood glucose and insulin levels were measured after an overnight fast. They also calculated BMI and took blood pressure readings in three different ways. Additionally, abdominal circumference, the classic indicator of a "beer belly", was recorded.

What were the results?

Those with a high BMI, large abdominal circumference rose in tandem with age and blood pressure. Blood pressure was also associated with higher insulin levels after subjects consumed a sugar-filled drink.

How was the second study conducted?

The researchers assessed the relationship between waist circumference and heart disease risk factors associated with obesity in more than 9,000 adults. Again, waist circumference was found to be a better mark of heart disease risk, as it was closely correlated with elevated bad cholesterol levels and elevated blood sugar levels.

So how do you get rid of a beer belly?

The researchers suggested that those with a beer belly decrease their caloric intake and maintain a healthy program of physical exercise.

American Journal of Hypertension September 15, 2002:780-786

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition October 2002; 76:743-749

Redefining Moments Insights that Change Destiny Donald Epstein

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 07:56:15 MDT

Redefining Moments Insights that Change Destiny:

Part 1 Donny Epstein, D.C.

Early in my chiropractic practice, three events forever shifted my professional trajectory. These events would lead me to explore the reorganization of my patients' spines in relationship to their lives, and to formulate concepts about the fundamental relationship between structure, behavior and perception. Moreover, they would set the stage for a very powerful research agenda having broad implications for the chiropractic profession and consumer, as well as for the academic community and public at large.

The First Event

In 1984, a very angry and anti-social patient with persistent back pain came to my office. My initial assessment showed continuing improvements. In addition there were marked changes in his demeanor. He was friendlier he began telling jokes. (Although they were not funny, it was a start!) One day, he even asked if he could use the reception area at lunch break to practice magic tricks for the children who came to the office after school. While it was evident he was displaying healthier behaviors, attitudes and perceptions, I did not have specific outcomes or communications to link his changes to the spinal improvement I was seeing. When I remarked to him about changes I'd noticed, his response was quick. "No doc. I'm still the same; it hurts right here". His son joined him at the office one afternoon, Astute observers that children are, I asked little Tommy what he liked best about his daddy since he began visiting my office, Tommy thought for a moment and replied, "He stopped hitting me and punching mummy in the face: Father and son embraced, and the father cried for the first time in over a dozen years, not even having shed a tear at his parent's death, Little did I know, Tommy's response would inspire my clinical and personal direction from that day forward. I decided that the presence or absence of pain was not as powerful an indicator of health or healing as social science indicators: function, personal perception, changes in beliefs, expressiveness, compassion, greater emotional acuity, more positive social interactions and behaviors, compassion and healthier choices for one's self and one's relationships. Inspired, I further studied the nature and assessment of health and wellness. As a result, years later I helped design the largest study to date of Chiropractic patient's self reported wellness, health and quality of life. As this research project progressed, and while examining other biomedical and social science research, I came to understand that the doctor may know what disease or condition a patient may present with, but only the patient/practice member knows if he is well. Wellness is indicated by the patient's belief about his health and quality of life. In this way wellness is measurable and a predictor of lifestyle, behavior, and quality of life. This is no doubt an important area for future research. The questionnaire used in this wellness study became the basis of patient-reported assessment in Network Spinal Analysis (NSA) Care, These assessments were then correlated with the corresponding sensory motor spinal strategies, through increasing organizational levels in NSA care. The longer the care, the greater the increased level of self-reported wellness, constructive behavioral change, life perception, and healthy lifestyle changes were seen.

The Second Event

A rather introverted, frail-looking woman presented in my office with two progressive autoimmune disorders. I asked if she had experienced any personal violation when she was a teenager because her spinal patterns suggested that she was still living in such a defensive posture. She answered "no" to my question. During a session in which a gentle, sustained contact was taken on C5, she began to thrash and punch me. She vomited and then jumped off the table and began to scream, "Get off me!" Having moved away to dodge the vomit, I was not even near her at the time. This was the first time I had experienced an individual's retracing of a traumatic event. Shortly afterwards she sat opening and closing her hands, a gesture she previously had extreme difficulty doing. Sobbing in relief and joy, she thanked me for setting her free. A few visits later, she remembered being raped by her stepdad. However, she expressed gratitude, believing this experience had unconsciously guided her to be a social worker. Interestingly, she worked on a rape hotline. Many visits and massive spinal structural and behavioral changes later, she reported that she had forgiven him. I provided care for her until she moved out of state. In those 4 years her autoimmune disorders remained "in remission". This event happened before the concepts of psychosocial stress, trauma, and body-mind unity were popular. Although shocking at the time, in retrospect this experience led me to explore spinal tension patterns, emotion, and spinal and neural integrity subsystems In time, from my growing understanding, the Epstein model of spinal and neural integrity was formulated. My desire to help refine spinal reorganizational strategies was now fully fueled. Spine after spine I worked towards more energy efficient, consistent, and reproducible spinal strategies. A decade after my graduation from Chiropractic College the first appearance of what came to be known as the "Network Wave" was witnessed. The Third Event: Producing the Network Wave will appear in the next issue.

References

Dr. Donny Epstein is the founder and developer of Network Spinal Analysis, Somata Respiratory Integration and Reorganizational Healing. He is the author of Healing Myths, Healing Magic, 12 Stages of Healing, and The Boomerang Principle, and most recently, The Somato Respiratory Integration Workbook. For more information about Donny Epstein, Network Spinal Analysis Care, and Reorganisational Healing visit www.wiseworldseminars.com •

Reorganizational Healing and the Four Sacred Seasons Part III

Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:39:33 MDT

Reorganizational Healing and the Sacred Seasons part II

By Dr. Louis Abate, Network Practitioner NY

for the original and more on Dr. Abate http://www.illuminarewellness.com

In the last article we talked about the overall concept of The Four Sacred Seasons of Wellbeing*. Each of us moves through these seasons at given points in our life and each season has it’s own unique outlook on life and produces it’s own experiences. For example, we all know that if we plant seeds in the winter while wearing a swimsuit we will have a very different experience and different outcomes than if we planted those same seeds in the spring, and wore the swimsuit in the summer. Swimming in the ocean during summer months will produce a markedly different physiological bodily experience than if we joined the Polar Bear Club and jumped into icy waters in the middle of winter.

The Seasons of Discover, Transform, Awaken and Integrate, while they may seem to have similarities to our seasonal cycles of Winter, Spring, Summer and Autumn, also have differences. The similarities include the specific conditions of the season that will dictate specific actions and structures that will produce success. The major difference though, is that unlike the climate seasons, there is no specific fixed time period. An individual may be in a Season of Wellbeing for a short period of time, or for many years.

The Season of Discover is usually our ‘jumping-in’ point. It is the starting line in our journey towards health and wellness. Like it’s name implies, the Season of Discover, is about discovery. It is vitally important when in this season to discover, to learn something new so that when we enter the Season of Transform we can do something with our newly acquired knowledge. It is a season where we develop strategies necessary to work with in the other seasons.

This season can be seen to correlate with our developmental years of infancy to the mid-teens. We are on a quest to learn about the world. As babies, the only way we get information is by putting everything in our mouths. Doing so we quickly learn the difference between something that is good for us and not.

In Discover we see problems and complications all around us. This is where we look at our bodies, our relationships, business, finances, at our God and say “Why me?!” “What did I do to deserve this?!” We are looking for external causation. If it wasn’t for the pain, illness, divorce, bankruptcy, loud neighbor, etc, then I wouldn’t have this problem or issue. The situation is perceived as external to us and as such we would be better off without it. It is the external problem/person that has caused us so much grief and suffering.

This is the point where most people are when they begin care with me. Being in the Season of Discover, while it may be uncomfortable, is absolutely necessary. This is the point where we begin to see exactly how we have defended and protected ourselves in the world. We need to discover what it is that produces pain for us, just as we need to discover what produces a successful result. In Discover we need to stop and pay attention to what our body, or life is saying. We need to discover how to do things differently than the way we have been doing them in order to produce a successful result. We must uncover how we use our body, tension patterns, energy, breath and movement to avoid feeling those emotions we previously categorized as “unlikeable,” and the begin to feel them without controlling the outcome.

You can view the Season of Discover as something painful, to be avoided, or as something you must fully dive into. Only by diving in, being submerged can you truly see the magnificence of the ocean below. When there is something to discover in our lives we want to be fully immersed in the Season of Discover, however we don’t want to stay there indefinitely. The time spent discovering will be useful in our developing strategies to move through the other seasons.

*The Four Sacred Seasons of Wellbeing was developed by Dr. Donald Epstein

Reorganizational Healing and the Four Sacred Seasons Part II

Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:36:45 MDT

Reorganizational Healing and the Sacred Seasons part II

By Dr. Louis Abate, Network Practitioner NY

for the original and more on Dr. Abate http://www.illuminarewellness.com

Think of ReOrganizational Healing as the meta model. There are several components within the meta model of ReOrganizational Healing. The first of these is “The Four Sacred Seasons of WellbeingTM.”

Within ReOrganizational healing, there are four unique rhythms or periods we undergo during our lifetime. These are referred to as the Sacred Seasons and include Discover, Transform, Awaken, and IntegrateTM. The seasons are not correlated to the seasons of the year or the developmental seasons of our lives, although they may happen to correspond to those times. Here they relate to our readiness for reorganization. In this respect the Sacred Seasons don’t necessarily have to be sequential, however they do appear to be universal in human experiences and represent moments or periods in life.

Each Season will influence the type of energetic intelligences we use: our thoughts, perceptions, behaviors, actions, as well as how we experience life. The season will influence not only the resources we have available but also our perception of and ability to utilize those resources. In one season a resource may be unavailable (or perceived as unavailable), while it is readily available and accessible in another season.

Understanding and living within or cooperating with a season will allow us to have a more effortless and productive experience and results. And living out of season will produce pain, discomfort, disappointment, and struggle. Just as you would not expect to plant seeds in winter and harvest the fruits in springtime, understanding the season you are in and its timing and rhythm are key to having a more rewarding, productive life.

After you learn the gifts inherent within the season it becomes easier to make conscious choices to support your reorganizing specific aspects of your life.

The first three seasons, Discover, Transform, and Awaken, represent the periods we cycle through during different stages of and circumstances in life. The fourth season, Integrate, represents the ability to know and consciously choose to occupy the combination of seasons called for in various circumstances or life changes. The ability to consciously combine the seasons represents a higher level of organizational integrity, complexity and communication in your life.

Beginning with the next newsletter I will discuss each season in greater depth.

Illuminare Wellness employs the Epstein Technologies of Network Spinal Analysis, Somato Respiratory Integration, and Reorganizational Healing to empower individuals to make sustainable change in their symptoms and concerns and to have a greater quality of life. Call 646-945-7370 for your appointment.

More information can be found in THE JOURNAL OF ALTERNATIVE AND COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE Volume 15, Number 5, 2009, pp. 475–487

Reorganizational Healing and the Four Sacred Seasons Part I

Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:32:03 MDT

Reorganizational Healing and the Sacred Seasons part I

By Dr. Louis Abate, Network Practitioner NY

for the original and more on Dr. Abate http://www.illuminarewellness.com

The central tenet governing the care provided at Illuminare Wellness is ReOrganizational Healing (ROH). This is a newly emerging wellness, growth and behavioral paradigm. It marks a major shift away from the way ”healing” is viewed and represents a movement toward empowering individuals to create and sustain change in their health and their lives, for these are inextricably intertwined.

Usually, when an individual experiences illness or disease, s/he will seek a specialist for an answer, to relieve a fear about the body or its functioning. The doctor or specialist will run tests so the patient can be diagnosed and undergo treatment with the objective of returning them to the level of health they were experiencing prior to the onset of symptoms. This disease-based, ‘‘restorative therapeutic’’ system (while at times truly medically necessary and justifiable) describes current models of preventive medicine as well as many complimentary and alternative therapies. In the restorative therapeutic model, symptoms and diseases are viewed as annoying, unavoidable inconveniences and disruptions that are separate from the rest of life and that must be eradicated, excised, pharmacologically blocked or masked, or even genetically modified, all while the patient remains passive in the process.

In contrast to all this, ReOrganizational Healing views disease, symptoms, and concerns not as a menace to be attacked, destroyed, and eliminated but rather as a manifestation of a variety of aspects of one’s life, a means of gaining wisdom from the body-mind by allowing the individual to reflect on the meaning s/he has given to the disease, perhaps unknowingly, based on individual and societal perspectives, cultural conditioning, world views and overall life stressors. In ReOrganizational Healing, the appearance of symptoms is a catalyst for a person to learn about the self and the body-mind better and to grow and find healing for the self within the self. This is done in part by exploring and making new choices about an one’s self-perception and the meaning one ascribes to the problem. The problem thus becomes what it actually is: a learning opportunity wherein one can change perspectives and reorganize one’s approach to issues in one’s life, including experiences viewed as stressors, as destructive, as causing pain or fear.

ROH helps one develop new resources and consciously use health challenges to affect changes in one’s life, bringing about greater understanding, wisdom, the possibility of peace of mind, and an increased ability to have a higher quality of life.

‘‘Instead of being meaningless, people’s problems become diseases of meaning, enabling people to see that things are not necessarily ‘going wrong’ but are, in fact, helping them become stronger, to live more fully and with more understanding.’’

—Jobst, Shostak, and Whitehouse, Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, 1999

In ROH disease and symptoms are viewed as a representation of a variety of aspects of an individual’s life, and these aspects serve as an opportunity for greater awareness wherein an individual can reflect on the meaning they have attributed to their experience. Of course, we all ascribe meaning to our experiences, both enjoyable and not, based in part on emotional wounds we endured in the past, most likely in early childhood. These wounds can be viewed as having created filters in our body-mind through which we process experiences, making them seem to be part of a cohesive whole, even when they have nothing to do with our past. Unless we take steps to view our newer experiences differently, we remain locked into patterns of “stuckness” in our physical and emotional experiences as well as the quality and content of our lives.

ROH helps one become an active participant in the healing process. The individual:

•Assesses the current situation, recognizing how based on past wounds and patterns of perception they drop to a lower level of functioning and behavior in the face of symptoms, problems, or life stressors, and

•Learns to alter their perceptions, behaviors and structures and choose to function at a higher level of effectiveness and complexity, establishing a new baseline of well being in spite of the challenge.

This way, an individual has the ability to thrive in the face of greater physical, biological, emotional, mental, spiritual, social and cultural demands.

As active participants in their well being, clients bring awareness to an area that is defensive, guarded or wounded while at the same time finding another part of their body where resources exist. Change occurs not only physically but cognitively, neurologically, somatically, energetically, and physiologically. The energy that was previously bound or trapped in the body (due to a lack of awareness) as fixation, tension, impediments and defense is released or becomes redirected into a new level of organization. This liberated energy now becomes available to enhance one’s function, restructure and reorganize one’s life for the better, for greater health and fulfillment. ROH helps transfer power from an external source – a healthcare professional, a medication, or other modality – to the individual, who is increasingly able to affect changes in health and life in a self-sustaining way.

Illuminare Wellness employs the Epstein Technologies of Reorganizational Healing, Network Spinal Analysis, and Somato Respiratory Integration to empower individuals to make sustainable change in their symptoms and concerns and to have a greater quality of life. Call 646-945-7370 today for your appointment.

More information can be found in The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine Volume 15, Number 5, 2009, pp. 475–487

The Weight Of Stress

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 06:43:26 MDT

When faced with a stressful situation, our bodies rely on the adrenal glands to monitor our “fight or flight” response. For the most part, our stress response evolved from short-term events — crises that came and went. If we had to run from a predator, for example, our healthy adrenal glands responded by releasing adrenaline, which makes us more alert and focused, and cortisol, which converts protein to energy and releases our stored sugar, glycogen, so our bodies have the fuel needed to respond quickly. In concert, the adrenal response rapidly increases our heart and respiratory rates and blood pressure while releasing energy, tensing our muscles, sharpening our senses, and slowing our digestion so we are primed to escape or fight back, whichever is needed. When the threat is gone, the body returns to normal — quickly with respect to adrenaline levels, less quickly with respect to cortisol. Aside from the life-critical job the adrenals play in activating your stress response and supplementing healthy hormonal balance as we age, the hormone cortisol itself has a powerful hand in so many other regulatory processes across all your systems: protecting the body from stress by regulating blood pressure, normalizing blood sugar levels, helping to regulate the immune and inflammatory responses, and influencing mood, memory, and clarity of thought.

But in today’s society, we are inundated with stress — stress that doesn’t let up. And when chronic stress repeatedly forces the adrenal glands to sustain high levels of cortisol, two things happen: first, the adrenals can’t attend to their broader role in hormonal regulation because the same resources they use to make hormones like estrogen and testosterone are required to make cortisol, and second, cortisol starts to damage healthy tissues. Eventually, adrenal fatigue sets in, and often we experience symptoms such as weight gain, fatigue, insomnia, fuzzy thinking, depression, cravings and mood swings. Once the adrenals become depleted, it can lead to adrenal exhaustion and much more serious health concerns.

Every challenge to the mind and body creates a demand on the adrenal glands. And the list of challenges is endless: lack of sleep, a demanding boss, the threat of losing your job, financial pressures, personality conflicts, yo-yo dieting, relationship turmoil, death or illness of a loved one, skipping meals, reliance on stimulants like caffeine and carbs, digestive problems, over-exercise, illness or infection, unresolved emotional issues from our past or present and more. The result is adrenal glands that are constantly on high alert.

Lowering our stress levels not only contributes to those around us, but it also reduces the risk of several other health hazards such as heart disease. The reality is, heart disease is the number one cause of death in this country. Did you know that there is an American will have a coronary event every 25 seconds?

More and more evidence suggests a relationship between the risk of cardiovascular disease and environmental and psychosocial factors. These factors include job strain, social isolation and personality traits. But more research is needed on how stress contributes to heart disease risk. We don't know if stress acts as an "independent" risk factor for cardiovascular disease or if it simply triggers otherrisk factors and behaviors, such as high blood pressure and cholesterol levels, smoking, physical inactivity and overeating. Either way, most health experts agree that emotional stress affects your body’s ability to function correctly.

Your adrenal glands are tiny in comparison to many other organs. They are roughly the size of a walnut, yet they have enormous responsibilities in your body. When they are functioning at their peak, these small glands can help you feel energized when you need to be and relaxed when it is time for rest. But life’s demands can slowly drain the balancing power of the adrenal glands. Even the healthiest person’s adrenals, though evolutionarily equipped to handle periods of stress, become fatigued under chronic, unrelenting stress.

Us adults aren’t the only ones who experience the wear and tear from stress. Unfortunately, too many kids today also suffer from an overload of stress. This stress, combined with poor nutrition and minimal exercise is why childhood obesity has become an epidemic in our culture.

According to the Center of Disease and Control Prevention, “American society has become 'obesogenic,' characterized by environments that promote increased food intake, nonhealthful foods, and physical inactivity.” This is especially bad for children, many of whose bodies and minds are developing on a low-exercise, high-sugar and fast food diet. If you have children or know someone who does, then you are probably somewhat aware of the obesity problem that exists with the youth today. Childhood obesity statistics reveal the stunning fact that almost 60% of children in America are obese children. In addition, we now know that 40% of obese children and 70% of obese adolescents become obese adults. Indeed, by the time an obese child turns six years old, his/her chance of becoming an obese adult is over 50%.

Obviously, stress is as real for children as it is for adults. Being teased on the playground for your weight can be just as real and nerve racking as money or job concerns. Whether you have children or not, it is important to understand that health is not just the condition of an individual, but of society as a whole. When we lead by example, we are sending the message that living a healthy life is not only possible but a priority.

Many of us with adrenal imbalance due to stress feel like exhaustion is just the natural state of being. Some of us depend on caffeine and high-carb snacks to get through the day. Others of us can barely get out of bed. Our adrenal glands are fundamental to our health, and when they are out of balance, the body prepares for disaster the best way it knows how — by storing calories. Genetically, some of us are more predisposed to this than others. But the good news is that if we heal the adrenals, stubborn pounds often fall away without too much effort, and our energy returns.

If you find yourself craving caffeine — or sugar for that matter — it may be that your cortisol is low, but it also simply may be that your body needs to rest. I encourage you to honor your body’s request and take a break, instead of winding it up another notch. Take a quiet moment and treat yourself to some deep breathing or a ten–minute walk. And if drinking a cup of coffee is a relaxing part of your routine and you don’t want to give it up, drink it in the morning with something nutritious to eat, and add cream to dull the negative effects of caffeine.

Too often, individuals and healthcare practitioners think weight loss is all about cutting calories and exercising more. But unfortunately, often times people try these methods with little to no success. Even if the person is doing everything “right” for their health; they exercise regularly, eat well, take their supplements, and so on. But many are frustrated by not losing the kind of weight they expected to lose. They’re literally desperate, and I’m sure many of you here today can relate to what I’m talking about!

The missing ingredient in this quest for weight loss is how the stress in their life is hindering their body’s ability to shed the excess weight.

With years of chronic stress, the adrenal glands can become imbalanced, leading to cortisol dominance or deficiency, insulin resistance, and unwanted weight gain. When this happens, it doesn’t matter how many calories you cut from your diet. The body is in crisis mode and is preparing for a famine. To do this, it clings to every calorie and packs it away in case the need arises.

Those of us with adrenal imbalance often have a “spare tire,” or what we call visceral fat deposits. This happens for several reasons. Under normal circumstances, when we haven’t eaten for a while, our blood sugar (glucose) drops and the brain sends a message to the adrenals to release cortisol. Under fasting conditions, cortisol mobilizes glucose (via glycogen in the liver), amino acids (primarily from muscles), and fat (from fat cells). This prevents hypoglycemia (low blood sugar), keeping your brain and body fueled with energy in the absence of food. So cortisol maintains glucose levels in the blood, while insulin helps usher glucose into the cells.

When we have long-term stress, cortisol and insulin remain high in the blood, and the extra glucose that isn’t needed for energy gets stored in the form of fat in our fat cells (adipocytes) — primarily abdominal fat cells. This is called “visceral fat.” Scientists have discovered that fat cells have special stress-hormone receptors for cortisol, but that there also seem to be more of these cortisol receptors on the fat cells in the abdomen than anywhere else in the body! If you think about it anatomically, the abdomen provides the most physical space to pack on extra weight. Sadly, visceral fat then begins itself to function as a metabolically active endocrine organ that reacts to the stress response, spurring yet further abdominal fat deposition. So the cycle continues unless we take steps to heal the metabolic imbalance.

Above all else, what you eat and when you eat can make a big difference. As I explained above, cortisol is integral to maintaining blood sugar, so it makes sense that keeping your blood sugar as level as possible lightens the load on the adrenal glands. Allowing yourself to get too hungry puts added stress on your adrenals, forcing them to pump out excess cortisol. To prevent this, I recommend you eat well and regularly — three balanced meals and two balanced snacks per day.

When you eat can also make a difference in preserving, supporting, and restoring your adrenals. As you can see in the graph, cortisol has a natural cycle that works with your circadian rhythm. Normally, it begins to rise around 6:00 AM and reaches its highest peak around 8:00 AM. Throughout the day cortisol gradually declines — with small upward bumps at meal times — in preparation for nighttime rest.

It’s ideal to work with this natural cycle to keep the tapering-off of levels as smooth as possible as the day progresses and to avoid dramatic ups and downs. To do this, it helps to get the majority of your food in earlier in the day, and to eat an early dinner.

Here are some eating tips to support your natural cortisol cycle:

* If possible, eat breakfast by 8:00 AM or within an hour of getting up (earlier is better), to restore blood sugar levels after using glycogen stores at night.

* Try to eat lunch between 11:00 AM and 12:00 noon. Your morning meal can be used up quickly.

* Eat a nutritious snack between 2:00 and 3:00 PM to get you through the natural dip in cortisol around 3:00 or 4:00 in the afternoon.

* Make an effort to eat dinner around 5:00 or 6:00 PM, and make this your lightest meal of the day.

If it’s difficult to eat early, as it is for many of my busy patients, at least try to make your evening meal the lightest one of the day, to prevent a surge of cortisol from ramping up your night-time metabolic rate and disrupting your ability to fall or stay asleep.

It’s difficult to make good nutritional choices when we’re going through periods of stress. Not only are our minds preoccupied with the stressor at hand, but our bodies are telling us they desperately need support, so we reach for foods that provide quick energy. Particularly at the end of a stressful day as the body is entering a period of recovery, overeating or making poor choices can be easy to do.

I know it feels overwhelming to think about changing your eating patterns, but believe me, small, incremental changes can really support better adrenal gland function and your daylong energy reserves. You don’t have to drag through the long days or dread your alarm clock every morning.!

Supporting your body’s natural rhythms by timing meals and preventing dramatic dips in blood sugar not only minimizes cortisol output and frees up your adrenals to perform their secondary functions, but gives you more sustained energy throughout the day — and life becomes much more enjoyable when we have the energy we need.

If you decide to do nothing else for your adrenals, I urge you to provide your body with a strong nutrient base. The vitamins, minerals and other micronutrients available in whole foods like fruits and vegetables from the 5 different color groups are absolutely essential for healing adrenal fatigue — as well as for the everyday workings of your adrenal glands.

Vitamins like C, E and all the B vitamins have crucial roles in the reactions that occur in the adrenal cascade. And a mineral like magnesium provides necessary energy for your adrenals — and every cell in your body — to function properly. Calcium and several trace minerals like zinc, manganese, selenium, and iodine provide calming effects in the body. These minerals can help to relieve the stress that comes with and causes adrenal fatigue, which will ultimately lessen your cortisol output.

A strong nutrient foundation also supports the endocrine system overall. There is great synergism between the different organs of the endocrine system (including the adrenal glands), where each organ and its secretions interact with the others to keep us in balance. But as hormonal levels become deficient or excessive, the natural response of our cells is to compensate by increasing or decreasing their receptors for those molecules. To do all this optimally, they need nutritional support!

Every day we make choices about what we eat and drink. Some days those choices are helpful for the body and other days — or meals — aren’t so helpful. What I encourage you to focus on is balance. Nourishing your body with balanced meals and snacks can do wonders for your energy and feed your adrenal health at the same time. Yet, you don’t want to be so stuck on eating “right” that you cause yourself more stress! I always tell my patients to eat their best 80% of the time. The other 20% is up to them.

Eating meals and snacks that are made of fresh whole foods, preferably organic or locally grown, without colors, dyes, chemicals, preservatives or added hormones are best to strive for. Including some protein in all your meals and snacks (especially in the morning) will have a stabilizing effect on your blood sugar, which in turn can help you overcome caffeine and sugar cravings.

To lessen the stress that often comes with trying to eat healthfully, think about preparing nutritious foods on the weekends so you have them ready and available on busy weeknights, or stop at a health food store to pick up some hot prepared food. Don’t feel guilty if your food isn’t homemade every day in your own kitchen. Guilt is the last thing your adrenals need!

Understanding and embracing the basic health principles we discussed today is only the first part of creating a life of balance and health. The most important element in creating change and breaking bad habits is taking action. Using the techniques we’ve discussed along with others you might already know or find along your journey towards healthy living is a great way to get started. It is important to realize that both your body and your thinking have been conditioned to respond a certain way towards stress for most of your life. Shifting these conditions will take commitment and discipline and will require taking actions in areas of life that you many not have before. Your body is a living organism with many different parts and complicated modes of intelligences that depend on stimulus feedback to function correctly. After years of stress, our body’s ability to communicate with itself begin to shut down as major systems start to fail. The most important of these systems, is the nervous system,

The nervous system is responsible for sending, receiving, and processing nerve impulses throughout the body. All the organs and muscles inside your body rely upon these nerve impulses to function. It could be considered as the master control unit inside your body.

A healthy nervous system can help your body create healthy physiological responses to stressors and therefore helping you maintain your health. A compromised Nervous System breaks down your body’s ability to respond to stress, leaving you vulnerable to sickness, both emotionally and physically. Unfortunately since most of us are frequently in a state of chronic stress, the muscles in our body, especially our neck, shoulders, and back are tightening in ways that are affecting not only how we feel, but are literally putting pressure on our spine which then begins to pinch on our nervous system. Since the nervous system is how the brain communicates with the rest of the body, the pinching of the nerves not only causes pain but causes our body’s natural functions to break down. This is one of the reasons why stress has such a wide reaching affect in so many different areas of our health.

It is important for you to understand that for many of those symptoms that you are currently experiencing, it is a result of the nerves in your nervous system being compromised which is a result of the stress your body is experiencing.

You have the power to lessen the burden on your adrenals — and your whole body. It doesn’t take much. The small choices you make in regards to your nutrition and eating patterns will make a difference. Beyond nutrition, let’s look at a few other areas of our life that can play a crucial role in helping to return balance back to our adrenal glands.

In theory, pacing yourself seems like an easy concept, but in our busy daily lives, self-care is often the first thing to go. Healing your adrenals means taking time for yourself, and for many of us, that means slowing down. We live in a multitasking world where we’re expected to be on-line 24/7. From cell phones and e-mail to TiVo and Facebook, we rarely take a break. If there was ever a good time to simply “unplug,” it’s when your adrenals are tapped out. I know it seems counterintuitive: we think being “on the go” all the time would help us to lose more weight. But if you’re tired, wired, and overweight, it’s likely you will need to lower your stress and heal your adrenals to stop the vicious weight-gain cycle.

If you really want to heal your adrenals, you need eight to nine hours of sleep a night — that is, when it’s dark. Many patients tell me they get a second wind after dinner, or that they’re “born night owls.” Burning the midnight oil can be seductive — it’s when many of us finally get some time to ourselves. But when you turn your circadian rhythm upside down, your cortisol cycle can follow, leaving you tired all day and wired all night. You can avoid this pattern by eating less late in the day, avoiding conflict and stimulation in the evening, and turning in a little earlier each night until you are in bed, asleep, by 10:00 PM. And until you are healed, go ahead and grant yourself the luxury of taking naps and sleeping in, when you can. Quality sleep is essential for your adrenals to heal and the pounds to be shed!

For once in your adult life, make having fun a priority! Many of us forget just how relaxing a few hours of fun or a good laugh can be. So today I am writing out a virtual prescription for you: “Play!” Take play seriously, and carve out time each day (at least three times a week) to do something you find completely, utterly enjoyable, no matter how frivolous or unproductive it may seem.

Simply by taking three to four deep, abdominal breaths through your nose you can slow your heart rate and calm the whole body down. Find time throughout your day to just breathe, and especially when you are feeling stressed use deep breathing as a way to calm your sympathetic nervous system. Learn to recognize the signals that you need to take a break, and get some fresh air, have a cup of herbal tea, or simply put your feet up. I can honestly say that whatever is stressing you out is not worth sacrificing your health!

Health practitioners have long known that using breathing techniques can reduce stress, increase relaxation and decrease pain. One of the most effective ways of expanding your capacity when you are under pressure is to control your breathing pattern during your day-to-day work. Your cells produce your body’s energy and get their nourishment from your blood. When you breathe in and bring oxygen into your body, it mixes with your blood stream and is then distributed to your cells. Frequent tiredness is a sign of not enough oxygen getting to your cells and shallow breathing reduces the amount of oxygen your cells receive.

When cells excrete toxins, it is picked up by the lymph system and processed. In addition to being part of the body’s plumbing and repair system, the lymphatic system is an essential part of the immune system. If these toxins are not removed by your lymph system, it can poison your body and make you feel sluggish, tired or unwell, as well as impair the body’s natural defenses. Deep breathing and exercise can accelerate the cleansing process of the lymphatic system 15 times the normal pace. Deep breathing invigorates your energy, blood, and oxygen in your body. Deep breathing is something everyone here can do everyday.

Regular exercise is crucial for repairing your metabolism. More importantly, exercise stimulates your body to produce endorphins, which helps to naturally relieve pain, creates feelings of well being and relaxation and helps you fall asleep faster. Most people assume that keeping active and staying fit require a strict regimen at the gym. Rather, the key is consistency. It’s much more important to focus on small, productive, self-maintaining activities that are adapted to your lifestyle.

Thirty minutes of exercise 3-4 times a week is the minimum needed to sustain your body’s fitness. If you simply cannot give yourself 30 minutes, then you can try to break up your 30 minutes up into 10 minute intervals scattered throughout the day. The benefits of regular cardiovascular exercise are overwhelming. Amongst other things, it improves blood circulation, lowers blood pressure, improves your self image and uses up excess energy released by the “fight or flight” reaction.

Similarly, regularly stretching your muscles improves flexibility, blood flow throughout your body, prevents muscle stiffness, strain and soreness and helps you to feel refreshed.

If you already exercise regularly and intensely, try easing up for a few months while your adrenals are healing. Whatever you do, don’t add to your stress by forcing yourself to exercise or by exercising too much!

Boulder Chiropractic can help alieve whiplash

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 06:37:23 MDT

ALIEVING WHIPLASH If you’re one the 2 million Americans who experience a whiplash injury each year, here’s some good news: Chiropractic adjustments can deliver lasting pain relief and correction from misaligned spinal bones (vertebrae). Whiplash occurs when the head is suddenly jerked back and forth, or side to side. This movement forces the neck beyond its normal movement limits, tearing muscles, ligaments and tendons. In some cases, the discs between the vertebrae of the neck may rupture, or bones may fracture. The most severe cases of whiplash involve trauma to the spinal cord and brain. Contrary to popular belief, you don’t need to be speeding to suffer a whiplash injury. Accidents at speeds of only five miles per hour have produced whiplash. More troubling is that the symptoms of whiplash do not always occur immediately; it can take months to develop. The solution? If you’re involved with any type of collision, have your spine checked by your chiropractor, then and allow your body to heal itself naturally. The sooner you can restore proper alignment of the spine and neck vertebra, the less pain you will experience. Chiropractic is also an excellent way to divert the possibility of developing arthritis later in life, a condition that has been linked to whiplash.

Best Chiropractor Boulder Care for your Spine and Nutrition Reduce Your Cancer Risk

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 05:46:15 MDT

Mom was right after all—we need to eat our vegetables, and lots of them, if we want to protect ourselves against cancer.

According to the US Cancer Society 1.4 million new cancer cases are expected per year as well as over 500,000 deaths per year. this makes cancer the 2nd leading cause of death even with all our nation's medical technology. This carries a total annual price tag of $74 billion in direct medical costs. The good News is that the American Cancer Society also says 75%-80% of cancer deaths are preventable.

According to a wave of studies, scientists have found compelling and consistent data associating diets rich in vegetables and fruits with a lower risk of cancer. This is great news for you.

Of the 200-plus global studies that were conducted, scientists safely conclude that a plant-rich diet puts people at a lower risk for developing tumors. Data from one particular area of research found that a diet rich in vegetables and grains slashed the risk of colon cancer by 40 percent. Another study found that women who regularly ate little to no vegetables were 25 percent more prone to develop breast cancer.

What is in vegetables and fruits that wards off cancer? John D. Potter, and epidemiologist at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre in Seattle says, “We’re discovering a plethora of bioactive substance in plant foods.” This substance is being labeled as a “phytochemical”. In a nut shell, these phytochemicals are naturally occurring compounds that interfere with the growth of cancer by slowing down, stopping or even reversing cancer’s damage.

Additionally, studies have shown that if the rates of DNA damage exceed the rate of repair it, the accumulation of errors can overwhelm the cell and result in early aging, cell self distruction, or cancer. Inherited diseases associated with faulty DNA repair functioning result in premature aging, increased sensitivity to carcinogens, and correspondingly increased cancer risk. On the other hand, organisms with enhanced DNA repair systems, exhibit remarkable resistance to even the double-strand break-inducing effects of radioactivity, likely due to enhanced efficiency of DNA repair. Independent of age, sex or taking nutritional supplements, long-term chiropractic care of two or more years re-established a normal physiological state of DNA repair in patients.

Patients receiving chiropractic care showed higher mean serum thiol levels, compared to patients with active disease, and produced some values that were higher than normal wellness values.

Take a proactive stance to protect your body from cancer. Eat plenty of vegetables and fruits each day, and make chiropractic adjustments part of your healthy lifestyle. It all works together to give you a better quality of life.

[Source: Harvard Health Letter, 1995]

Beware the Barbeque

Sun, 19 Jun 2011 18:17:53 MDT

Beware of the BBQ

By Jacob Schor, ND reprinted from To Your Health

Grilling meat is an inherently dumb thing to do. Here's why: Cooking animal flesh over a hot open flame triggers a series of chemical reactions that yield a meal loaded with carcinogens. Scientists have been warning us about this danger for two decades. Cancer-causing compounds known as heterocyclic amines (HCAs) can form, particularly when cooking animal flesh over high heat, which is common when barbequing. These chemicals – the same chemicals that are found in cigarette smoke – have been shown to cause cancer.

For example, in a Harvard study by Erin Richman and colleagues, results of which were published in March 2010 in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, men who ate cooked chicken at high heat with the skin on had twice the risk of having their previously diagnosed prostate cancer return or get worse than those who ate skinless chicken. The researchers' theory to explain these chicken skin findings: The HCAs formed in chicken skin during cooking were the culprit of the cancer relapse.

Is there a solution; a way to avoid filling your body with HCAs? Don't grill your meat (or don't eat meat at all, since research suggests grilling vegetables does not generate HCAs). The trouble with that "solution" is that we've been cooking dinner over open fires for two million years. Taking pleasure in grilling meat over a fire is so deeply ingrained in our blood that most people aren't about to change.

That said, researchers studying the production of heterocyclic amines during the cooking process have discovered a number of "tricks" that may reduce the risks posed while barbequing, either by interfering with the creation of HCAs or inactivating them once they're formed. For example, precooking a hamburger patty for two minutes in a microwave before barbequing reduces heterocyclic amines by a whopping 90 percent, according to research. Adding vitamin antioxidants to the meat or marinating it in antioxidant-rich spices before cooking appears to work almost as well.

When it comes to marinades, there are also important things to know. First, not just any marinade seems to work – old-style tomato-based barbecue sauces actually increase heterocyclic amine production, while marinades like teriyaki sauce reduce heterocyclic amines produced during cooking by half. Those packets of store-bought powder marinades that you add oil and vinegar to also seem to be surprisingly effective.

A 2008 study published in the Journal of Food Science measured heterocyclic amine levels in pan-fried steaks that had been marinated in one of three popular store-bought products. They found "Caribbean Blend" to be the best choice, reducing levels by 88 percent. "Herb Blend" came in second, reducing heterocyclic amines by 72 percent, and "Southwest Blend" came in third, but still lowered levels by 57 percent.

This isn't product promotion: there's nothing special in any of these mixtures that you can't get just about anywhere. It turns out that many common spices have strong antioxidant effects. Rosemary is particularly effective at reducing production of HCAs, suggests a 2010 study. Marinating chicken in red wine also may reduce production of some heterocyclic amines. Ray Pleva, a Michigan butcher, is famous for adding cherries to his sausage meat. Adding cherry pulp to meat not only makes the burgers juicier, but the fruit also acts as an antioxidant. The cherries prevent heterocyclic amines from being formed, reducing levels by 90 percent. Vitamin E works as well; a single 400 IU capsule is enough to treat 10 pounds of hamburger.

There is also another approach to reducing the harm caused by heterocyclic amines. A number of foods have been identified that neutralize heterocyclic amines in the intestine and prevent them from causing DNA damage. For example, several studies suggest that the Lactobacilli strains in yogurt do this, so serving yogurt on or with meat meals provides additional protection because it actually reduces the harmful effects of these chemicals.

Certain alcoholic beverages also neutralize heterocyclic amines. Sake, brandy, white wine and stout ale have all been shown to prevent heterocyclic amines from causing DNA damage. Ale was the most effective. And though few people will choose this method, freeze-dried beer powder also works.

It would be great if the marinade manufacturers specifically designed meat and chicken marinades to lower production of these chemicals even further. Of course, they would be stuck. Under current law, they would be prohibited from making any health claims on the labels about the product's benefits regarding HCA neutralization.

The bottom line for anyone who wants to cook meat, whether chicken, beef, pork or anything else on the grill is simple – make sure to marinate all meats before cooking. When cooking ground beef, knead in herbs and/or vitamin E. Stick with skinless chicken if cooking poultry. Always accompany barbecued meat with a yogurt dish and a little alcohol, preferably stout ale; and use a yogurt salad dressing or even something as simple as frozen yogurt for dessert. And, remember that you can cook vegetables on the grill without the danger of heterocyclic amine formation – and increase the nutritional content of your meal at the same time. Talk to your doctor for more information.

BBQ the Safer Way

Here are some of the best way to ensure you enjoy the summer BBQ season without risking consumption of cancer-causing heterocyclic amines, formed when meat is cooked at high temperature:

Go meatless: Heating any animal's flesh forms HCAs, but evidence suggests grilled vegetables do not make HCAs. Add vegetables to the menu so you eat less meat. Think of grilled corn, grilled asparagus, grilled mushrooms, etc. You'll be adding vegetables to your meal while reducing consumption of HCAs at the same time.

Turn down the heat: Temperature is the most significant determinant of HCA formation; the higher the temperature, the more HCAs. A hot barbecue makes more HCAs than any other cooking method.

Turn the meat often. Flip those burgers, chicken breasts and other meats. Frequent flipping prevents the meat from reaching as high a temperature and lowers the amount of HCAs formed. Lowering cooking temperature by 100 degrees cuts HCA formation by two-thirds.

Try new ingredients: Cherries, prunes, apples, elderberries, pineapple, garlic, vitamin E and rosemary are some of the ingredients that significantly reduce HCAs in meat while cooking.

Marinade any meat before grilling: Marinating beef steaks overnight with a teriyaki or turmeric-garlic sauce cut HCA by 60 percent in one study. Avoid high sugar and especially fructose-sweetened marinades, as they may triple HCA production. The simplest marinade: red wine; a red wine marinade for chicken breasts reduced HCA formation by 88 percent.

Go skinless: Removing poultry skin cuts risk of prostate recurrence by half, so it's probably a good idea for the rest of us.

Choose the right side dishes: It's not just beer that prevents HCAs from causing genetic damage. Chose side dishes that include any of these foods: green tea, black, and rooibos (red) tea; red wine, blueberries, blackberries, red grapes, kiwi, watermelon, parsley, and spinach greens.

Eat cruciferous vegetables: Broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage and other members of the cruciferous family contain a chemical called sulforaphane that appears to neutralize HCAs' cancer-causing action.

Jacob Schor, ND, is a naturopathic physician practicing in Denver. He is a member of the board of directors of the Oncology Association of Naturopathic Physicians. To learn more about Dr. Schor, visit www.denvernaturopathic.com/index.html.

Pain Pill Overdoses Send Thousands to the hospital

Sat, 11 Jun 2011 01:38:38 MDT

Pain pill overdoses send thousands to hospital

reprinted from the chiropractic journal

Overdoses of the common household drug acetaminophen lead to more than 78,000 emergency department (ED) visits a year, and the majority of the overdoses are intentional, according to a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“About 70% are for self-harm attempts, and 13% to 14% are kids getting into products,” said lead study author Daniel Budnitz, MD, medical officer at the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion. “The other 16% are the adolescents and adults that generally fall into two groups: the younger adults that are misusing over-the-counter products because they are trying to get better pain control and don’t understand the risks, and the older adults that are making some errors using the opioid combination products.”

Consumers take acetaminophen -- the active ingredient in Tylenol -- to reduce pain or fever, as a single drug in tablets, capsules or liquid. Acetaminophen combines with other drugs in a variety of over-the-counter (OTC) cold, flu, and sinus medicines including Theraflu, Triaminic and Sudafed.

Since they are OTC drugs, people normally consider them completely safe. Acetaminophen also appears in combination with an opioid – a narcotic -- in prescription medicines like Vicodin (with hydrocodone) or in Percocet (with oxycodone).

ED visits related to abuse of acetaminophen products were not included in the study, which

appears online and in the June issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

Young people ages 15 to 24 are at highest risk for suicide attempts or acts of self-harm involving acetaminophen, the researchers found. “Because these data are based on ED records, it is often difficult to determine exactly what motivated the patient – if they had a premeditated plan to end their life with an overdose or if the overdose was an impulsive act,” said Dr. Budnitz.

Among the others in this age group, 75% of ED visits occurred because they went above the recommended acetaminophen dosage in search of quicker or stronger relief.

Overdoses by people who think more medicine is better points to a deep knowledge gap and need for better consumer education about a familiar drug, said Henry Spiller, director of the Kentucky Regional Poison Center. He has no affiliation with the study.

“We frequently see that with abdominal pain or tooth pain. They can’t get to the dentist for a day or two so just try to manage the pain themselves. Some actually come in with frank liver failure,” Spiller said. “I think they’re unaware that they’re risking something as bad as liver failure – especially with tooth pain.”

Budnitz explained: “The toxic dose depends on the age of the person, how much they weigh and their liver function, but in general, 10 to 15 grams can cause what’s called hepatic necrosis, which is basically the liver cells dying. So 10 grams – an extra-strength tablet is 500 milligrams of acetaminophen – that’s about 20 tablets. If you double or triple the dose of acetaminophen, and you take it for several days, you will cause significant liver problems.” And rather than a sudden, dramatic reaction, overdose symptoms often occur later. “If untreated the acetaminophen toxicity can take days, maybe weeks, to manifest itself.”

As to degree of seriousness, Budnitz pointed out: “Depending on the person, and how much they took and what treatments they get, the outcomes range from full recovery to possible death without a liver transplant.”

Overdoses caused by extra doses for symptom relief or other mistakes were more likely to involve OTC products in people ages 15 to 24, and opioid-containing acetaminophen products in people older than 39.

The study analyzed two years of data from the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System to estimate the number of annual ED visits nationwide. The actual sample included 63 US hospitals and findings relied on 2,717 cases.

SOURCES: American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 40(6), 2011 and Health Behavior News Service.

Chiropractic Improves Athletic Performance

Wed, 25 May 2011 08:32:08 MDT

CHIROPRACTIC IMPROVES ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE

A new study reveals that bicyclists can improve their performance by undergoing a short program of chiropractic care.The study involved six people, 4 male and 2 female. Three of the males and both females were competitive racers.Initially, the subjects were tested to determine their base line performance. Using a CompuTrainer--a stationary, computerized machine that allows the rider’s personal bike to be attached to it—each bicyclist participated in a race simulation. Researchers then recorded various data regarding strength, pressure and force. After the test, each biker was examinated and adjusted by a chiropractor, then retested on the CompuTrainer one – two weeks later.A poll of the riders found that five reported a lower perceived effort of how hard they were working at the same workload during the retest. Five of the riders also experienced improvement in pedaling performance. These results indicate that a bicyclist can ride longer before fatiguing.Chiropractic adjustments improve all aspects of body performance by correcting vertebral subluxations, or misalignments of the spine, which interfere with nervous system and the body’s ability to function at 100 percent capacity. If this is what chiropractic adjustments can do for bicyclists, just image how beneficial chiropractic adjustments will be to your everyday living!

The Ultimate Nutrition Lie Detector

Wed, 25 May 2011 08:29:03 MDT

Recently our nutrition technology was highlighted on national television. The highly acclaimed television show Dr oz, formerly on Oprah, aired a program antioxidant all stars focusing on the dangers of free radicals and the benefits of antioxidants. they scanned the whole audience with the revolutionary antioxidant scanner and seated the whole audience in colored t shirts representing their score! Dr Oz himself was scanned and crowned thepharmanexunit the ultimate nutrition lie detector. For a national television network to make such a claim dr oz must have done his research.

As did Drs Danny and Richelle! 18 months before Dr. Oz and ABC, Chiropractors Drs Danny and Richelle flew out to Utah to the research and development lab to assess the quality of the technology and the various nutrition protocols related to the findings. before a technology was in our office we wanted to feel certain about recommending it.

Pharmanex scanner recently featured on The Dr. Oz Show, click here to view.

During the show Dr Oz related the scan score to the most significant illness of our time, cancer. An elaborate demonstration was enacted to explain the relationship of antioxidant levels and DNA breakage. The rate of DNA breakage is directly related to cancer rates. Due to the protection provided by antioxidants the biophotonic scanner test score is correlated to longevity. Des danny and richelle highly recommend your whole family get scanned to assess your health and recommend steps to improve where you are and your future. Find out if you are lying to yourself, get a scan at our office today!

Dangers of Cholesterol Lowering Drugs

Tue, 17 May 2011 06:21:34 MDT

Reprinted from maxmizedliving.com

Cholesterol lowering statin drugs are amongst the most widely prescribed medications in history. Roughly 24 million Americans take these drugs - Pravachol, Mevacor, Lipitor, Zocor and Crestor - under the direction of their medical doctor; most with the hope of preventing heart attacks and strokes. The sales of these drugs have added up to billions of dollars through the years, but new research is now showing that the risks are high when patients try to lower their cholesterol unnaturally using these medications. According to a recent study in the British Medical Journal, the drugs significantly increased a person’s risk of muscle weakness, liver dysfunction, cataracts, and kidney failure. The data was collected from 2 million patients, both men and women ranging from 30 to 84 years of age.1 In addition, researchers concluded that the unintended benefits that statin advocates claim, such as for multiple sclerosis and colorectal cancer, are largely unsubstantiated.2 Clearly, lowering cholesterol levels artificially comes at a price. What’s more is that your body actually needs cholesterol; your brain actually requires cholesterol to function properly!3 The truth is that if your body did not need cholesterol regularly to function it would not naturally produce it. Cholesterol is necessary to create vital hormones in the body, repair cell membranes, make vitamin D, make bile acids to digest fats, allow healthy neurological function, as well as repair damaged cells. So it is not cholesterol that is the true problem, it is chronic inflammation that causes the damage to the blood vessels and then the oxidation of the cholesterol. Too much cholesterol is simply a sign that there is chronic inflammation in the body. The problem is, lowering cholesterol doesn’t address the inflammation causing it. Inflammation can be due to nutrition and diet, as well as physical nerve stress due to subluxation in the spine, which is precisely why Maximized Living doctors check your nervous system for interference on a regular basis. “In other words it has never been conclusively shown that lowering cholesterol saves lives. In fact, most larger studies have shown that lowering cholesterol into the range currently recommended is correlated with an increased risk of death, especially of cancer. –Dr. Ron Rosedale, M.D. According to current CDC statistics, 1 out of every 6 Americans now have high cholesterol (National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention. 9 Feb 2011). As recommended cholesterol guidelines continue to change, we must take a close look at the supporting evidence claiming lowering cholesterol levels promotes heart health. A closer look actually reveals startling conclusions. Why do so many Americans have HIGH CHOLESTEROL? Cholesterol is the body's repair substance. As you age, cholesterol raises to help production of hormones. When your body has an infection or needs to fight off an illness, cholesterol will increase. When inflammation occurs in your arteries, the liver will produce more cholesterol to help repair the arteries and the rest of your damaged body! Instead of being scared by cholesterol marketing propaganda, it would be smarter to choose healthy lifestyle choices that truly reduce the risk of cardiac death WITHOUT THE SIDE EFFECTS linked to cholesterol medication. Through Maximized Living’s approach to proper nutrition, exercise, nerve function, life management skills, and detoxification systems, we can help your heart stay healthy! With this startling discovery about cholesterol and the dangers of statins, it is easy to see that restoring your health through Maximized Living’s 5 Essentials is more important than ever before. The alternative to maintaining your health could be a dangerous medication or even worse a life threatening medical procedure. If you are someone with high cholesterol there are many things you can do to lower your cholesterol more effectively, cheaper and naturally with no side effects except better overall health:

Make sure you are getting daily exercise at least a half hour to 1 hour.

Get plenty of natural sunlight. Even if you do live in an area with lots of sun, getting plenty of it is something most of us do not do. Try our ML Vitamin D3 with Probiotics today to ensure you are getting your appropriate Vitamin D levels.

Eat live foods such as raw fruits, vegetables, nuts. These have their good fiber in fact which help you maintain healthy cholesterol levels.

Avoid damaged fats and hydrogenated oils.

If you or someone you know is taking a cholesterol lowering medication, talk to your local Maximized Living doctor to figure out which of the 5 Essentials is being neglected and what the next step is to building a life free of these dangerous drugs.

Changing the way you think about and experience health through 5 Essentials of Maximized Living.

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Deadly Household Pain Reliever Are You Using It

Tue, 17 May 2011 06:04:32 MDT

Deadly Household Pain Reliever: Are You Using It?The number of Americans accidentally overdosing on the over-the-counter pain reliever acetaminophen, the main ingredient in Tylenol and other similar pain relievers, is alarming. According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), acetaminophen overdose was responsible for more than 56,000 emergency room visits and approximately 100 deaths last year.These are numbers that cannot be ignored.Acetaminophen is everywhere. It’s found in more than 600 products that treat pain, colds, flu and coughs. But that’s not the problem. Life-threatening trouble arises when people don’t heed medication instructions and drug interaction warnings printed on the box or bottle. All too often people combine different medications that contain acetaminophen, or they exceed the recommended dosage in hopes of faster pain relief. All too often the end result is severe liver damage or even death.To avoid becoming a statistic, educate yourself. Become a label reader and follow acetaminophen dosage instructions carefully.

The Little Pill That Causes Big Problems

Wed, 11 May 2011 07:46:45 MDT

The Little Pill That Causes Big Problems

DR ERIN SOULSEY

According to the Center for Disease Control, roughly one out of twenty Americans is clinically depressed, with 121 million people being affected worldwide. Because of this, 230 million prescriptions for antidepressants are issued every single year in the US alone. However, the rate of depression diagnoses is continuing to rise. Something obviously isn’t working, and tens of thousands of people are dying each year because of antidepressant use. Depression is defined as a common mental disorder that presents with depressed mood, loss of interest or pleasure, feelings of guilt or low self-worth, disturbed sleep or appetite, low energy, and poor concentration, according to the World Health Organization. Most people go through some or all of the above named feelings at some point in their lives, but it is how we cope with and adapt to these feelings that can determine whether we enter full-blown depression. According to medical journalist Robert Whitaker, research shows that people in this pre-depression state tend to overcome the episode rather quickly without outside help (i.e. antidepressants); however, if people in that state were to be prescribed antidepressants in order to “speed up” that process, a whopping eighty-five percent are shown to develop continuing relapses and become chronically depressed once on the medication. In children with unipolar depression who are prescribed antidepressants, fifty percent will develop bipolar disorder after taking the medication. It’s been shown that the United States, known for its prescription drug use, comprises only five percent of the world’s population yet consumes approximately seventy-five percent of the world’s drugs. In the United Kingdom, however, medical doctors are less likely to prescribe antidepressants as a first line of treatment to a patient coping with depressive symptoms. According to recent research, more than twenty-five percent of these doctors will actually prescribe exercise and other natural remedies ahead of chemical treatment. These doctors have done their due diligence and researched the effectiveness of natural treatments that have been proven to improve symptoms better, faster, and for the long-term than antidepressants. Feeling depressed is a painful situation. It is understandable why someone may reach out to what seems like a medical solution. The question is,are there safer, better solutions without side-effects that are exponentially greater than the problems you face right now? A 1990 Duke University study compared the effectiveness of exercise versus antidepressants on depressed patients. Three groups were compared: An exercise-only group; an exercise and antidepressant group; and an antidepressant-only group. After 10 months, the exercise-only group had the highest remission and stay-well rate. Cutting out sugar, primarily in the form of fructose, will significantly reduce depressive symptoms according to William Duffy. Duffy’s book “The Sugar Blues” totes sugar as a major factor in deteriorating mental health. Duffy recommends no more than 25 grams of sugar per day- in any form (includes limiting grains and some fruits as well). Proper supplementation is effective in reducing depressive symptoms as well. Increasing Omega 3 fatty acids has been proven to improve mood. Research has shown that increasing vitamin D will have similar results as well. One recent study demonstrated that eighty-seven percent of schizophrenics were able to eliminate their symptoms by supplementing with vitamin D. Another important factor for reducing depressive symptoms is improving sleep. Some tips for improved sleep are noted above (exercise, decreasing sugar, and proper supplementation). Meditation and relaxation techniques can be beneficial as well. You may also not know that many studies exist linking properly applied Chiropractic adjustments to mood elevation, brain chemistry balance, improved brain wave function – and the net effect to you; being happier emotionally.

Milkshakes French Fries Chips and Cocaine

Wed, 11 May 2011 07:33:56 MDT

Milkshakes, French Fries, Chips and Cocaine...

by Dr. Mike Risoldi

In the 04/04/11 issue of the online edition of The Archives of General Psychiatry, a group of Yale University researchers reported on why it can be so hard to maintain a healthy weight, and why it has been so difficult to find obesity treatments that work.

Obesity is one of the biggest challenges facing this nation as well as the individuals of the US. Could the brain's response to the tempting appeal of fast food (sugary, fatty, salty, and/or greasy foods be the same response an addict's brain exhibits when it is anticipating the next "dose" of whatever it is addicted to?

The research hypothesis was that if certain foods are addictive, many people may be fighting a losing battle in their efforts to achieve sustainable weight loss.

The researchers found that compulsive eating may be driven, in part, by an enhanced expectation of the reward of eating a particular food. This is the same mechanism at work in addictions.

What causes the brain to seek "reward" may lie in the chemicals that have been added to many "junk" foods. These foods are highly processed and tend to be loaded with flavor enhancing chemicals like MSG, Aspartame and High Fructose Corn Syrup. All of these are KNOWN to be highly addictive.

MSG, which we have reported on in the past, over-excites the brain to the point that it actually causes neurological brain damage -- but because it "tastes" so good, people quickly become addicted to it.

Feeling Better or Better Feeling

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 01:30:33 MDT

Feeling Better? Or Better Feeling?

Health care as we know it in this country is focused on stomping out symptoms and conditions. We have been taught that since our earliest memories. If something is hurting mom kisses it to make it better. If it is more significant, we get an over the counter medication to make it go away. If we are disturbed we reach for caffeine, television, alcohol, food or other substances to numb ourselves, all in the attempt to silence what we are feeling. However is that in our best interest?

All of your senses are necessary from seeing and hearing to feeling. What you sense allows you to respond, to react, and to adapt. If you put your hand on a hot stove are you better off to feel it or not. In fact, some very serious conditions, such as leprosy, involve the state of not being able to feel. You have the most intricate and sensitive autonomic and sensory nerve system of any creature on the planet. This has evolved over millennia to create a being that is the most fit to survive.

Spinal subluxations are literally blown neural circuits. They are where your nerve system has failed to adapt to a physical, chemical or emotional event. From the fall over your bicycle handlebars as a kid to the upset you experienced with the loss of a loved one. They are a short term survival strategy that is effective for you to get on with your life. However, as these distortions fragment your nerve system it leaves you disconnected from who you truly are and living up to your quality of life potential. The traumas of your past literally alienate, isolate, separate part of your physiology from one another. You end up living in a body armor of your history.

As your nerve system chooses to wake up it sends messengers for you to pay attention. The aching shoulder, the bulging waistline, your lack of energy and so on. The healthier you are the more subtle the messenger and the quicker you respond. This sicker you are the louder the messenger and the more destructive it is to how you live your life. If you were in the jungle would it be more advantageous to recognize a lion by its roar or its breath? Sometimes waking up is hard to do and the longer you hit the snooze alarm the harder it is to wake up.

Returning you to the state you were in before you had this symptomatic situation that is chaotic to your life has been the focus of health care. But that is not good enough because that is the state that got you to the situation you are in, to the symptom you are experiencing, the condition you have.

Disease care is further anesthetizing you from your life to help you survive short term and for crisis recovery. Health care, wellness care, is about better connection to the perfection within you so you can feel everything. Health is wholeness, healing is the process of becoming more whole. As you have greater connection to your source you will feel more. You may feel the parts of you that have been numb throughout your life, the unexpressed emotional upset, the detoxification of the chemical exposures you have experienced, the physical traumas that you drugged. Perhaps you will feel for the first time in your life!

Chiropractor Boulder Says Meditate Rather Than Medicate

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 07:15:59 MDT

Meditate rather than medicate!

Reprinted from The Chiropractic Journal

In article in the Jan. 30, 2011 issue of Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging offers a powerful reminder of how beneficial meditation can be.

According to a the findings of a University of Massachusetts Center for Mindfulness study – the “Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction” (MBSR) program – participating in eight-weeks of mindfulness meditation appears to make measurable changes in brain regions associated with memory, sense of self, empathy, and stress. Mindfulness meditation focuses on nonjudgmental awareness of sensations, feelings and state of mind.

“Although the practice of meditation is associated with a sense of peacefulness and physical relaxation, practitioners have long claimed that meditation also provides cognitive and psychological benefits that persist throughout the day,” said Sara Lazar, PhD, of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Psychiatric Neuroimaging Research Program, the study’s senior author. “This study demonstrates that changes in brain structure may underlie some of these reported improvements and that people are not just feeling better because they are spending time relaxing.”

Prior research has shown that there are actual structural differences between the brains of experienced meditation practitioners and people with no history of meditation. A thickening of the cerebral cortex in areas associated with attention and emotional integration has been observed.

For this particular study, MR images were taken of the brain structure of 16 study participants two weeks before and after they took part in the MBSR program. In addition to weekly meetings that included the practice of mindfulness meditation, participants received audio recordings for guided meditation practice and were asked to keep track of how much time they practiced each day. A set of MR brain images were also taken of a control group of non-meditators over a similar time interval.

Meditation group participants reported spending an average of 27 minutes daily practicing mindfulness exercises, and their responses to a mindfulness questionnaire indicated significant improvements compared with pre-participation responses.

The analysis of MR images, which focused on areas where meditation-associated differences were seen in earlier studies, found increased grey-matter density in the hippocampus, known to be important for learning and memory, and in structures associated with self-awareness, compassion, and introspection.

Participant-reported reductions in stress also were correlated with decreased grey-matter density in the amygdala, which is known to play an important role in anxiety and stress. Although no change was observed in a self-awareness-associated structure called the insula, which had been identified in earlier studies, the authors suggested that longer-term meditation practice might be needed to produce changes in that area. None of these changes were seen in the control group, indicating that they had not resulted merely from the passage of time.

“It is fascinating to see the brain’s plasticity and that, by practicing meditation, we can play an active role in changing the brain and can increase our well-being and quality of life.” said Britta Hölzel, PhD, first author of the paper and a research fellow at MGH and Giessen University in Germany. “Other studies in different patient populations have shown that meditation can make significant improvements in a variety of symptoms, and we are now investigating the underlying mechanisms in the brain that facilitate this change.”

Amishi Jha, PhD, a University of Miami neuroscientist who investigates mindfulness-training’s effects on individuals in high-stress situations, said: “These results shed light on the mechanisms of action of mindfulness-based training. They demonstrate that the first-person experience of stress can not only be reduced with an eight-week mindfulness training program but that this experiential change corresponds with structural changes in the amydala, a finding that opens doors to many possibilities for further research on MBSR’s potential to protect against stress-related disorders, such as post-traumatic stress disorder.”

Meditate Rather Than Medicate

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 02:43:02 MDT

Click to download a printable copy for your patient

reprinted fom The Chiropractic journal

An article in the Jan. 30, 2011 issue of Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging offers a powerful reminder of how beneficial meditation can be.

"Although the practice of meditation is associated with a sense of peacefulness and physical relaxation, practitioners have long claimed that meditation also provides cognitive and psychological benefits that persist throughout the day," said Sara Lazar, PhD, of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Psychiatric Neuroimaging Research Program, the study’s senior author. "This study demonstrates that changes in brain structure may underlie some of these reported improvements and that people are not just feeling better because they are spending time relaxing."

Participant-reportedreductions in stress also were correlated with decreased grey-matter density in the amygdala, which is known to play an important role in anxiety and stress. Although no change was observed in a self-awareness-associated structure called the insula, which had been identified in earlier studies, the authors suggested that longer-term meditation practice might be needed to produce changes in that area. None of these changes were seen in the control group, indicating that they had not resulted merely from the passage of time.

"It is fascinating to see the brain’s plasticity and that, by practicing meditation, we can play an active role in changing the brain and can increase our well-being and quality of life.” said Britta Hölzel, PhD, first author of the paper and a research fellow at MGH and Giessen University in Germany. "Other studies in different patient populations have shown that meditation can make significant improvements in a variety of symptoms, and we are now investigating the underlying mechanisms in the brain that facilitate this change."

Amishi Jha, PhD, a University of Miami neuroscientist who investigates mindfulness-training's effects on individuals in high-stress situations, said: "These results shed light on the mechanisms of action of mindfulness-based training. They demonstrate that the first-person experience of stress can not only be reduced with an eight-week mindfulness training program but that this experiential change corresponds with structural changes in the amydala, a finding that opens doors to many possibilities for further research on MBSR's potential to protect against stress-related disorders, such as post-traumatic stress disorder."

Inflammation and Disease Putting Out The Fire

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 07:31:49 MDT

Time Magazine recently crowned Inflammation the Silent Killer. On their cover they have linked it to Heart Disease, Cancer, and Alzheimer’s and inside they have linked it to many more life threatening conditions. They are talking about low grade, chronic systemic inflammation and it is pandemic in our culture. Many factors contribute to living in an inflammatory state- obesity, high blood pressure, smoking, unhealthy cholesterol levels, diets high in sugar and low in omega 3’s, lack of exercise.

This is an area of your well being that we all need to have a full frontal plan of action towards improving. There are many action steps that are central to the wellness lifestyle that one can take effectively on their own to get their body to douse the flames of inflammation. Watch your calories, eat fish and other good fats, rather than saturated fats, consume antioxidants, avoid inflammatory foods and behaviors to name just a few. One that is most important is the health of your nerve system.

A key role of your nerve system is adaptation. To help you to adapt to the events that happen to you on a daily basis. And whether you realize it or not these events are stresses. Physical, chemical, and emotional stresses happen day in and day out. And it is the role of your nerve system to help you process and adapt to these without internalizing them. When your body fails to adapt your body goes into a flight or fight response fanning the flames of inflammation with your stress hormones.

What people don’t realize is that when you fail to adapt to stresses that is what causes subluxations. This lack of coordination or DIS-EASE is the root cause of the majority of health concerns. And your body continues to respond to many events, stresses and trauma’s as if they are still happening. Furthermore, what is referred to as a facilitated neurological pathway is set up. This basically means that once you have gone down a certain path it is easy to go down it again. Once your nerve system subluxates from a particular stressor it takes less and less to create the same response, and less to create an inflammatory response from life events.

This is one of the major reasons why so many people that receive network care have such drastic changes in areas of their health like allergies, blood sugar, arthritis, and digestion which people tend to not associate with chiropractic care. Because network care frees them from the facilitated patterns their nerve system goes to on autopilot.

Health is not only your state of your lab values, it is your body’s ability to adapt each and every day. If you want to reduce your risk of disease you must focus on creating EASE and eliminating DIS-EASE. That is why maximizing the function of your spine is central to every area of your health. It’s not about your back, it’s about your life.

The Non Linear Approach To Wellness

Sun, 03 Apr 2011 17:23:12 MDT

The Non-Linear Approach to Wellness

Excerpt from Healing Myths/Healing Magic pg.113-115 By Donald M. Epstein

While working within the chiropractic paradigm, I discovered the non-linear approach to wellness, and developed a form of "wellness care" known as Network Spinal Analysis (NSA). To my surprise, I found that very gentle touch to the upper and lower spine can cause the entire spine to reconfigure itself. Deep respiration, along with wavelike undulations and dissipation of stored spinal tension are often associated with this gentle touch, and result in an overall enhancement of our quality of life. In the non-linear approach to wellness, a small change in our physiology produces a disproportionate response in our health and well-being. A strong force need not be applied to create a significant change in the body-mind. In fact, I discovered that applying a forceful touch can actually inhibit this process.

When I first developed Network Spinal Analysis, I found that memories of childhood hurts, accidents, or other physical or psychological traumas are often stored as tension and energy patterns in different parts of the body. This energy, confined under tension, is not unlike a powerful spring. Overtime, it manifests in physically tight muscles, joint fixation, resistance to full body motion, depression, and shallow breathing. It manifests as pain and disease.

I also observed that the more ill we are, the more energy we need to release in order to heal. The energy that is not free to circulate generates tension over time, until conditions are ripe for it to initiate the healing process. Hurts and wounds from our past build up pressure and "collect" energy from new hurts and wounds in the present. For example, our spouse makes a harmless remark about how we might have done something differently, and we respond with anger that lasts for several days. The remark sparks a reaction in the energy that is already "charged" by previous hurts and wounds. This energy becomes more and more blocked, denied, isolated, until at last it is ready to be released. When the energy is released (or converted from a confined state into a freer state), it becomes available for healing, and actually helps fuel the healing process.

The non-linear approach to wellness considers the body-mind an interactive system, influenced by many factors that contribute to health or illness. The ability of our body-mind to receive, circulate, and dissipate energy, and our current and past experiences in life significantly affect our health. In addition, our cultural story strongly influences how we interpret and respond to a given situation. The severity of the symptoms, the duration of a condition, or the degree of the pathology do not by themselves determine the severity of the measures needed to be taken in order to heal. A small change, when perceived by the nervous system, can release the stored energy and tension allowing it to be utilized by the body for constructive purposes like healing and transformation. When our body-mind becomes aware of the need for change, and can feel and pay attention to itself, there are many useful tools that facilitate self-awareness and act as a catalyst to enable old hurts and wounds to heal. A spinal adjustment, breathing exercises, a meditation practice, or yoga are just a few.

Healing neither requires great effort nor drastic measures. While curing or treating symptoms or disease may call for such measures, this is not the case with healing. As a by product of healing, we may decide to make radical changes in our life, but the decision to make such changes occurs as a result of the healing already in progress. It is by healing that we enhance our ability to make constructive changes.

Healing Myth To be Average Is Normal

Sun, 03 Apr 2011 17:18:01 MDT

Healing Myths, Healing Magic By Donald Epstein, D.C., - The Healing Times, 2000

We all have stories about how life is "supposed to be." There is a certain sense of entitlement deeply anchored in our body-mind that has been transmitted through our culture. These stories often guide us toward destructive choices that may add to our illness, block our appreciation of healing, and even kill us. I refer to those "cultural hallucinations" as myths. I believe that the right healing magic can help break the spell of our illusions, and help us to reclaim our power to heal.

Our beliefs and expectations color our perceptions of life experiences. We experience symptoms, crises, and events by first reacting with our socially programmed "emotional brain." Our physiology has already reacted before the "higher brain" has had the opportunity to process the incoming information and to assess the appropriate behavior. The higher brain determines if what we are feeling or sensing is dangerous or benign.

However, this brain "information processing center" has already been programmed by the prevailing cultural mythology. The emotional or knee-jerk type of response to the situation may override a more appropriate response. In my book Healing Myths, Healing Magic, I divide our beliefs into four categories: Social, Biomedical, Religious, and New Age.

Like all illusions, the power of our healing myths diminishes when they are recognized for what they truly are, stories that we can either accept or reject. I invite you to entertain the possibility that you are more powerful, creative, prosperous, and compassionate, and have greater healing resources, than you have ever imagined. I invite you to share my personal story that all beings are part of one community, that you are not alone, and that your experiences are not in vain.

You do not have to eat primarily from the Tree of Knowledge to survive. You can receive the fruits of the Tree of Life, through which your biology, rather than your understanding, is sacred. Through fully experiencing your biology, you can express spirit more fully and live in a state of grace. From this space, you can gain true knowing, growth, and healing. As I present some myths, you may be tempted to disagree and insist that they are not myths at all. The stronger that feeling, the more likely that particular story is deeply rooted in our culture and ingrained in your personal physiology.

A very powerful social myth is: In healing, to be average is normal, and therefore desirable.

"Non-average" is considered pathological or deviant, something to be controlled by the culture of the physician, therapist, or court. Rather than applauding those who stand out from the crowd for their unique abilities or unusual accomplishments, we are suspicious of who do not conform. Our allopathic view of the body follows the same lines, and its applications are intended to bring everyone to a "safe normal" or average. "Normal" in a laboratory test does not mean "healthy"; it just means "average."

If this myth influences your life, you may respond to a concern by asking a doctor, "Is this normal?" If you question whether your behavior is "normal," or if you wait for the results of a laboratory test to decide if you are healthy or sick, I suggest that you read the following statement, or "magic," out loud and make it your affirmation for a day:

I have no need to be average or normal. I surrender the need to fit into the expectations of others at the expense of my own evolution. At times, upon claiming my wholeness, I may look, sound, or "test" non-average. I joyfully celebrate my loss of normalcy, and claim my authenticity, sanity, and health.

Today, the New Age myths resonate strongly within our culture. New Thought has brought about many shifts in human consciousness in the past forty years. Concepts such as the interconnectedness of life, a desire to heal the rift between our physical and social environments, and the questioning of old paradigms in relation to government, business, education, and religion are all products of New Age thought.

Central to these tenets is the belief that we create the major and minor events in our life through individual intent, thoughts, feelings, and will. When this New Age ideal is viewed through our prevailing or old mythology, where the Tree of Knowledge is our mainstay, serious health consequences occur. What a result is the construct that through knowledge, or though proper thought, we can have dominion over our environment. This can be expanded to mean that God, Goddess, or the gods are subject to our thought or will, and presumes that we are knowledgeable enough to know what needs to be changed or controlled.

There is often a desire to replace masculine with feminine, to replace the first and second sexual centers, or chakras, with the heart or crown energies. There is the assumption that being sweet, loving, positive, or pure is more powerful and healthy than expressing anger, resentment, force, or sexual energy. Sweetness, avoidance, intention, and transcendence often replace authenticity, confrontation, action, structure, and experience.

We may not speak with our parents or others because they dis-empower us, and instead choose to sit at the feet of our guru. We may break up a relationship or quit a job when it no longer feels right or good. We take the full spectrum of experience and eliminate those aspects of consciousness that do not fulfill the mythology of our behavior in this subculture.

If we have pain, we choose prayer, herbs, energy medicine, natural remedies, forgiveness, or love rather than drugs or surgery. However, the same old story remains, although the means or applications we choose to control our experiences have changed. In both cases, the story is that what we are experiencing is bad or wrong and needs to be controlled or eliminated. Often the New Age mythology leads us to believe that being healthy means liking one’s experience, and that the experience needs to be gentle and loving. Therefore we believe that emotional, mental, or spiritual purity has not been achieved if we feel or perceive something that does not fit our picture of entitlement. This New Age mythology can be counterproductive to our healing.

I spoke about this myth at a public lecture. At the end of the talk, a woman in a wheelchair maneuvered herself toward me with tears streaming down her face. She blurted out, "Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!" She went on to say that she was an incest survivor, and had asked herself why she created her stepfather having sexual relations with her. She was also tormented over why she had created her son committing suicide, why she had caused her uterine cancer, hysterectomy, a divorce, a tornado that destroyed her Texas home, and, finally, her multiple sclerosis.

Over the past twenty years this woman had felt progressively more guilty and helpless over a series of events. She bought the myth — you create your own reality — hook, line, and sinker. The power of this myth in her life made her feel responsible for situations that were largely beyond her control. Tremendous damage to every system of the body resulted as she continued to shoulder self-blame.

In that lecture I stated that although we do set forces into motion that can influence certain outcomes, may circumstances are apparently independent of our volition, actions, intents, and desires. At times, the main lesson to be learned is that the universe does not personalize events. Certain events occur within or around us that are, in fact, often in spite of us.

The woman mentioned that as I made these statements, she felt as though a heavy weight was removed from her chest, head, and legs. She told me that something magical had happened to her during the talk. Her thinking was changing, and for the first time in over twenty years she did not feel like a "waste of humanity, a worthless piece of flesh." She looked deep into my eyes as she held my hands and said, "It is not for me to create my reality. It is for me to experience what I experience without having to judge or make up a story about it."

I do not know what has since happened in this woman’s life. I do not know if she regained the use of her legs. Becoming ambulatory in itself would not, however, be "proof" of her healing. I suspect that in questioning our cultural mythology, she was becoming more whole than she had been since her childhood. As she created a new story, the healing process would have led her to different choices, different actions, and a different life.

As an antidote for the prevailing "you create your own reality" myth, I suggest the following healing magic:

I am not responsible for creating my external reality. I am responsible for my internal state of mind, emotion, and vibration. I am responsible for focusing my attention on my inner environment in relationship to my life circumstance. It is my gift to become aware of the state of tension, pain, or ease in my body/mind, and to accept my experiences — pleasant or unpleasant — with non-judgment and love.

Healing is about the person inside. It is not the circumstance of the moment that is of concern. Healing is about becoming more whole, not about a predetermined outcome or type of feeling you desire. Healing is instantaneous, although visible outcomes may take time. Healing can occur 24 hours a day with or without a trained professional, and is free for the taking.

People will tend to seek out practitioners whose procedures are consistent with their stories. As you heal, your stories will spontaneously change. I encourage you to read Healing Myths, Healing Magic and examine the 34 myths that have placed a spell on our healing. I invite you to invoke the magic that can break the spell of these illusions and help you to reclaim your power to heal.

Donald Epstein is an internationally known healer and author. His latest book, Healing Myths, Healing Magic, explores new perspectives on the ancient subject of healing. He is also the developer of Network Spinal Analysis; a revolutionary method of healing designed to bring more peace and wholeness to the individual. For more information visit his website at www.donaldepstein.com

chiropractor boulder says Obese kids blame behavior not genetics

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 02:44:14 MDT

Chiropractor Boulder Says: Obese kids: Blame behavior, not genetics

originally printed in the chiropracitc journal

The problem with childhood obesity is well documented. But when our own children are overweight, it’s often tempting to blame genetics rather than admit they overeat, don’t get enough exercise, and consume the wrong types of food. “It’s in her genes,” or “He gets it from his father,” we tend to think.Yet, it’s hard to escape the truth in the face of mounting scientific evidence, including a recent University of Michigan (U-M) study, which concluded that behavior – not genetics – is the real culprit in childhood obesity. The study was published in the American Heart Journal.Check-ups of 1,003 Michigan 6th graders in a school-based health program showed children who are obese were more likely to consume school lunch instead of a packed lunch from home, and spend two hours a day watching TV or playing a video game.The results were compiled by the University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center (UMCC) and suggest unhealthy habits are feeding the childhood obesity trend.Study senior author Kim A. Eagle, MD, a cardiologist and a UMCC director, explained that “increasing physical activity, reducing recreational screen time and improving the nutritional value of school lunches offers great promise to begin a reversal of current childhood obesity trends.”U-M researchers found that 58% of obese children had watched two hours of TV the previous day, compared to 41% of non-obese children. While 45% of obese students always ate school lunch, only 34% percent of non-obese students ate school lunch.Significantly fewer obese kids exercised regularly, took physical education classes, or were a member of a sports team.Because the eating and exercise patterns of obese children were so different than their normal weight peers, researchers concluded that lifestyle was more closely linked with childhood obesity than genetics.In the U-M study, 15% of the middle school students were obese, but nearly all, whether overweight or not, reported unhealthy habits.More than 30% had consumed regular soda the previous day, and less than half remembered eating two portions of fruits and vegetables within the past 24 hours. Only one-third of students said they exercised for 30 minutes for five days in the prior week.“It’s clear that opportunities to improve health abound for the majority of our students, not just the 15 percent who are already obese,” said study co-author Elizabeth Jackson, MD, assistant professor of internal medicine at the U-M Cardiovascular Center.The prevalence of obesity among US children ages 6 to 11 increased from 6.5% in 1980 to 19.6% in 2008.SOURCE: “Health status and behavior among middle-school children in a Midwest community: What are the underpinnings of childhood obesity?” American Heart Journal, Vol. 160, Issue 6, December 2010. (www.ahjonline.com/article/S0002-8703 (10)00888-4/abstract)T

Stop Brushing Your Teeth

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 08:56:06 MDT

STOP BRUSHING YOUR TEETH!!! STOP DOING OIL CHANGES ON YOUR CAR!!! STOP TALKING TO YOUR LOVED ONES!!!

By Dr. Barry Weinberg author of A Clear Path to Healing

Have I got your attention? You may be wondering why I would make such ridiculous statements. Of course we need to brush our teeth, give our car oil changes, and talk to our loved ones.

But why?

In order for anything of value to last and remain healthy, it must be maintained.

Yet, why is it if I ask someone if they have had their spine adjusted recently, they give me a funny look or they turn the other way and run. Are not our spine and spinal cord as important as our teeth, car or relationships?

Did you know that our nervous system - brain, spinal cord and nerves control, coordinate and heal every cell and organ in our body...both structure and function. Because of their vital importance, the nervous system is protected by bone - the skull and spine.

Due to physical, emotional, and chemical stresses you experience on a daily basis, your spine and spinal cord are placed under tremendous pressures. These pressures cause tension to build in your spine resulting in misalignments of the spinal bones. These misalignments cause interference to your gentle nerves blocking the signals which control organ function and our body’s ability to heal properly.

Unfortunately, these misalignments rarely cause pain or symptoms, they always cause interference and eventually damage and dysfunction. This damage over time is what causes the pain and symptoms.

This is why your spine must be maintained, just as you maintain your teeth, car, relationships and anything else you wish to keep healthy. What will happens if you do not maintain these things? They degenerate, decay and eventually break down.

Research has demonstrated that people under regular chiropractic care, including infants, children, teens, adults and the elderly, get sick less often, handle stress better, have stronger immune systems, and have an overall improved quality of life. Why? Because their spines are free of tension and interference, and all the signals from the brain which control, coordinate and heal all body structure and function reach their destination...the cells of the body.

If you are currently experiencing back or neck pain, headaches, joint pain, or chronic problems such as high blood pressure, asthma, allergies, diabetes or any other health problem, I guarantee that you have not been maintaining your spine. Am I correct?

To maintain a healthy spine, once it is clear of chronic interference, you can guarantee yourself a lifetime of optimum health and vitality. The cost of money and time is minimal compared to the cost of time, money and sanity if you do not maintain your spine and get into a crisis.

If you are currently maintaining your spine, I congratulate you. You are taking responsibility for your health and taking proactive steps to improve your quality of life, prevent disease and injury and achieve your optimum health potential.

If you are not currently maintaining your spine, please give us a call and we would be happy to allow you to come in for a spinal check-up and consultation with the doctor at a discounted rate. The doctor will sit down with you, listen to your needs, do a complete spinal evaluation and recommend a plan which is best for you.

If you wait for the pain or problem before deciding to visit your chiropractor, the damage has already been done and it is very difficult, and sometimes too late, to correct. When it comes to health, the attitude of "don’t fix it ‘till its broke" rarely is effective.

On the other hand, if you correct your subluxations before they cause pain or disease, you wind up spending less money, less time and prevent weeks, months or even years of suffering.

Don’t let your spine degenerate as your teeth, engine or relationships do if you don’t maintain them. Maintain your spine and reach your optimum health potential.

LETS NEVER FIND OUT WHAT WE HAVE PREVENTED!

Antibiotics can destroy good bacteria for years

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 08:18:44 MDT

reprinted from the chiropractic Journal Feb 2011

A research article published Nov. 3, 2010 in the journal Microbiology, came to the startling conclusion that even a short course of antibiotics can leave normal gut bacteria harboring antibiotic resistance genes for up to two years after treatment.

What many people forget is that the body is filled with both "good" bacteria -- such as the normal microbial flora of the human gut -- as well as "bad" or pathogenic bacteria. Antibiotics can alter the composition of microbial populations and allow micro-organisms that are naturally resistant to the antibiotic to flourish. This reduces the ability of the body to react to the pathogenic entities, potentially leading to other illnesses.

The impact of antibiotics on the normal gut flora has previously been thought to be short-term, with any disturbances being restored several weeks after treatment. However, the review of the long-term impacts of antibiotic therapy reveals that this is not always the case. Studies have shown that high levels of resistance genes can be detected in gut microbes after just seven days of antibiotic treatment and that these genes remain present for up to two years -- even if the individual has taken no further antibiotics.

The consequences of this could be potentially life-threatening, explained Dr. Cecilia Jernberg, of the Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, who conducted the review. "The long-term presence of resistance genes in human gut bacteria dramatically increases the probability of them being transferred to and exploited by harmful bacteria that pass through the gut. This could reduce the success of future antibiotic treatments and potentially lead to new strains of antibiotic-resistant bacteria."

The review highlights the necessity of using antibiotics prudently. "Antibiotic resistance is not a new problem and there is a growing battle with multi-drug resistant strains of pathogenic bacteria. The development of new antibiotics is slow and so we must use the effective drugs we have left with care," stated Dr. Jernberg. "This new information about the long-term impacts of antibiotics is of great importance to allow rational antibiotic administration guidelines to be put in place," she said.

SOURCE: Microbiology 156 (2010), 3216-3223; DOI 10.1099; http://mic.sgmjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/156/11/3216

Headache Pills can Cause Headaches

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 08:09:32 MDT

When patients come to us with help for headaches it is important for them to know about the latest information from a Consumer Reports (CR) health research report: their headaches may be caused by the drugs they’re taking to treat them!

"It’s not uncommon for people to experience medication-overuse headaches," said Orly Avitzur, MD, medical adviser, Consumer Reports Health, and a practicing neurologist. "It often comes as a surprise to my patients when I tell them that overuse of an over-the-counter medication such as ibuprofen or aspirin may be causing their headaches. We all keep these OTCs in our medicine cabinets and I think many of us are so accustomed to them that we may underestimate the risk of overmedicating," Dr. Avitzur added.

The popular WebMD website concurs: "Many commonly used pain relievers, when taken in large enough amounts, can cause rebound headaches. Drugs once thought of as ‘safe’ are turning up as the likeliest culprits," warns one WebMD medical reference article. The "culprits" listed include:

Aspirin

Sinus relief medications

Acetaminophen (Tylenol)

Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medications (such as Aleve)

Sedatives for sleep

Codeine and prescription narcotics

Over-the-counter combination headache remedies containing caffeine (such as Anacin, Excedrin, Bayer Select)

Ergotamine preparations (such as Cafergot, Migergot, Ergomar, Bellergal-S, Bel-Phen-Ergot S, Phenerbel-S, Ercaf, Wigraine, and Cafatine PB)

Butalbital combination pain relievers (Goody’s Headache Powder, Supac, fiorinal, fioricet)

The CR report took a particularly close look at a group of drugs called the triptans, which have become the most commonly prescribed drug for migraine patients, despite the fact that MDs are unclear as to how they work (it’s believed they affect how the nervous system handles serotonin, which is involved in pain processing).

It’s no wonder triptans are so extensively prescribed. They’re expensive and extremely profitable for drug makers. A single dose ranges in cost from $21 to $157, depending on the dosage and the form the medication comes in (tablets, nasal spray, or injection).

70000 kids hospitalized for accidental drug poisoning

Tue, 15 Mar 2011 11:53:41 MDT

70,000 kids hospitalized for accidental drug 'poisoning'

originially published in the chiropractic journal

A new Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) study found that two-thirds (68.9%) of the 100,340 emergency department visits made in 2008 for accidental ingestion of drugs were made by children aged 5 or younger.

Two-fifths (42.3%) of the visits involved patients aged 2 years-old, and almost one third (29.5%) involved one-year-old patients. The report showed that males accounted for slightly more than half (55.7%) of the emergency department visits for accidental drug ingestion among children aged 5 or younger.

Additionally, the survey indicated that these incidents included drugs that act on the central nervous system (CNS) (40.8%), with the two main CNS drugs being pain relievers (21.1%), and drugs for insomnia and anxiety (11.6%). The study also found that 15.7% of the emergency department visits involved drugs for treating heart disease, followed by respiratory system drugs (10.3%).

"Poisoning is one of the most common childhood injuries. Most of the time it happens right at home," said SAMHSA Administrator Pamela S. Hyde, JD. "Locking up drugs and properly disposing leftover or expired drugs can save lives. Studies like this one that measure the impact on the health care system of accidental ingestion of drugs also provides us an opportunity to get the message out to parents and caregivers that there are simple steps they can take to prevent accidental drug ingestion."

The study also looked at whether these young patients needed additional care and treatment following their initial treatment at the hospital emergency department. Most of the children who were taken to an emergency department because of accidental drug ingestion were treated and released following the visit (85.3%). However, about 1 in 10 (8.7%) of the patients were admitted for inpatient care and 5% were transferred to other health care facilities.

The study, "Emergency Department Visits Involving Accidental Ingestion of Drugs by Children Aged 5 or Younger," was developed as part of the agency's strategic initiative on data, outcomes, and quality -- an effort to inform policy makers and service providers on the nature and scope of behavioral health issues. It is based on SAMHSA's 2008 Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) report. DAWN is a public health surveillance system that monitors drug-related hospital emergency department visits reported throughout the nation.

SOURCE: A copy of the study is available at: http://oas.samhsa.gov/2k10/DAWN014/AccidentalIngestion.htm

US Spends 233 Billion a year on Prescription Drugs

Mon, 07 Mar 2011 05:01:38 MST

Reprinted From Dr Terry Rondberg, D.C.

A new report from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) shows that, in 2008, insurers and consumers spent nearly $233 billion on a wide array of prescription drugs. The number one class of drugs (accounting for $52.2 billion, 22% of the total) was metabolic medicine used to control diabetes and cholesterol.

The next four “biggest sellers” of outpatient prescription drugs in 2008 were :

• Central nervous system drugs, used to relieve chronic pain and control epileptic seizures and Parkinson’s Disease tremors – $35 billion.

• Cardiovascular drugs , including calcium channel blockers and diuretics – $29 billion.

• Antacids, antidiarrheals, and other medicines for gastrointestinal conditions – $20 billion.

• Antidepressants, antipsychotics, and other psychotherapeutic drugs – $20 billion.

Overall purchases of these five therapeutic classes of drugs totaled nearly $156 billion, or two-thirds of the almost $233 billion that was spent on prescription medicines used in the outpatient treatment of adults.

Most industry experts say the prescription and spending figures have continued to climb since 2008 and will soon top $300 billion, despite overwhelming evidence that diet can effectively control both diabetes and cholesterol in almost all cases.

A study published in the Sept. 1, 2009 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine, found that 56% of patients following what has been called the “Mediterranean diet” (a diet high in fruits, vegetables, whole grains and healthy fats, including olive oil, with an emphasis on lean protein sources such as fish, chicken and nuts) were able to control their blood sugar without medication. That same group also showed improvements in triglyceride and HDL cholesterol levels.

In addition, there is significant clinical evidence that chiropractic care, including correction of subluxation, can impact neurologic function and, as a result, have a beneficial effect on both blood sugar and cholesterol levels. By educating patients about alternatives to prescription drugs, chiropractors can help reduce the negative effects of these conditions.

SOURCES: “Expenditures for the Top Five Classes of Outpatient Prescription Drugs, Adult ages 18 and Older, 2008,” Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), www.meps.ahrq.gov/mepsweb/data_files/publications/st313/stat313.pdf

“Effects of a Mediterranean-Style Diet on the Need for Antihyperglycemic Drug Therapy in Patients With Newly Diagnosed Type 2 Diabetes,” Annual of Internal Medicine, Sept. 1, 2009, vol. 151 no. 5 306-314. Abstract online

Local Fibromyalgia Doctor Exposes The Shocking Truth About This So Called Incurable Condition

Sat, 26 Feb 2011 23:59:07 MST

NEW! Just Released: Local Fibromyalgia Doctor Exposes The Shocking Truth About This So Called “Incurable” Condition…

Attention Fibromyalgia Sufferers:

“Here’s A Safe & Easy Way Many Are Using To Feel Better, Be Up, Motivated, And Get Excited To Live Life Again! Discover The Secret To Finally Stop Living In Pain, Even If You’ve Tried Everything Before!”

Friday, 6:13 pm

Dear Friend In Pain,

What you’re about to read will show you step-by-step how many people are helping their pain and suffering and literally getting their life handed back to them – no matter how hard they’ve tried before…

I don’t have to tell you that Fibromyalgia is a terrible condition that not only robs you of strength and motivation, but also in severe cases, can even strip you of the will to live.

Some say that if you’ve been suffering from Fibromyalgia, it’s not surprising if the pain and agony that you’re going though makes you want to cry or even wish you would die sometimes. At the least, it makes even the strongest minded individual stop and ask why…”why ‘me’, I can’t take it,” and “why do I have to go through this?”

If that describes you, you must want your life back. You must wish you could stop the torment and to feel energized and alive again. If you’re like most sufferers, you’ve tried so many things.

You’ve taken the meds, you’ve gone to doctors, you’ve tried the magic oils, and you’ve probably even gotten some type of therapy. You don’t know who or what to believe anymore. It’s even disturbing your quality of life and time with your family.

When you finally get a chance to relax and enjoy yourself it attacks. Let’s say you’re out with your spouse, or the kids are with mom, or you have a chance to soak up some time to yourself. Maybe you’d like see a movie, grab dinner, simply have a nice evening out with your loved one. Then it happens. It creeps up and sets in.

“Like A Thug Just Waiting For The Perfect Time To Attack, The Pain Suddenly Creeps In”

Your night is ruined. You can’t enjoy even a waking moment. You go home, get in bed and try to at least have a good night’s sleep, but you end up sleeping poorly. The next day you awake to feeling chronically tired or even depressed.

The cycle seems to repeat itself and go on and on. You just want the pain to stop more than anything else, and you should! You deserve more, you deserve to live your life again. There has to be a way for this horror of a nightmare to stop…!

I’m going to share with you how you may be able to make it stop. Don’t let any negative thoughts of “no hope” or “being trapped” in this condition sink in. Please open your mind before you get down or even feel like there is no hope, because I want to let you in on something very positive….I may be able to help you feel yourself again!

That’s right! Regardless of how bad you think it may be, I may be able to help you! My name is Dr. Knowles and I help people fight and overcome the horror of Fibromyalgia.

A large percentage of my patients come to me seeking help for the exact same reason you are: they’ve tried everything and have no where else to turn. They want to eliminate Fibromyalgia forever! Most of my Fibromyalgia patients have great success even with the simplest little treatment I offer and it may be able to work for you too…

“Here’s Why Fibromyalgia Ruins The Lives Of Millions Of People Each Year, And How You Can Easily Avoid This Common Mistake”

Fibromyalgia can become a crippling disease. It ruins the lives of millions people each year. Why? They never spend the time focusing in on the source of the problem.

Most of the recent research on Fibromyalgia points to brain stem injury and malfunction as the major cause of Fibromyalgia. Sometimes a simple nerve system evaluation and surface EMG test can detect the exact problem. Imagine finally, feeling yourself again and getting rid of the pain! You may be able to, and I’ll show you how in a minute. It works for many people and it may be able to work for you too!

However, don’t just take my word for it, here’s more proof.

Check out these real-life examples:

“Initially came to the office with Fibromyalgia and the aches and pains that come with the disorder. Chiropractic care has changed my life for the better. Now I go about my life with much more pleasure. I can drive now and haven’t been able to for 10 years”!

Sandra, 50 plus year old women, ex Fibromyalgia sufferer

“When I first came I had suffered with pain in my lower back for several months, with it eventually progressing to extend into my left leg and foot. I had gone to my family doctor and he prescribed pain medications and muscle relaxers, but it didn’t help. In fact, the medications upset my stomach and made me unable to concentrate at my job. Fortunately, my son-in-law, recommended that I get a thorough evaluation. The doctor sat down with me and explained to me what my spine was doing to cause the pain and recommended a plan of care to correct the spinal misalignments, as well as gave me exercises to get me back on my feet. It was just a short time before all the pain was gone, I’m back to walking my two miles a day and can lift my grandchildren again. I recommend this to everyone that is willing to listen. I’m sold on its benefits!”

Felecia, Previous Fibromyalgia sufferer

(Names were changed for privacy purposes.)

“The 3 BIG Fibromyalgia Myths That May Cause You More Pain And Suffering And Make Your Situation Even Worse!”

I promise your situation is not unique. And more importantly – your situation is NOT hopeless.

However, you must avoid the 3 myths, or I hate to say, you will make things worse. This is a big problem. Most people who suffer from Fibromyalgia have been fed the myths by doctors, authorities, media, even friends. “It’s all in your mind!” or “You just need to stop stressing so much, calm down!”

Here are the three biggest myths about Fibromyalgia. Believing these will never get you the results you want and may make things worse:

· The first one is hoping that physical activity or exercise will work by itself! Exercise is important, but it sometimes makes the problem worse without first identifying the true cause of the symptoms.

· The second is hoping the problem will go away by itself! This is ludicrous. Fibromyalgia sometimes gets worse as it gets ignored. People that put off the correct treatment can look forward to even more pain and suffering down the road.

· The third is taking doses and doses of medication to alleviate the pain! This is the most dangerous of all the fallacies! Medication or pain killers, and mind altering drugs pump chemicals into your brain to fool it and make it think the problem is gone. All the while, because of mistreatment and neglect the problem gets worse. But that’s the not as bad as the terrible side effects of pain killers and medication. Medication is the worse alternative to healing and eliminating Fibromyalgia. Not only does it make the condition worse, but also creates additional problems and even dependency on medication.

Wouldn’t you agree that it’s crazy to think you’ll get different results if you keep doing the same thing over and over again? If I keep touching a hot stove and kept getting burned – I’d be silly to think the next time I touch that hot stove I won’t get burned.

That’s why you need to try something different…

“What If There Was A Safe, Simple Way YouCould Become Pain Free?”

As I mentioned before, there may be a way. A way you can relieve your Fibromyalgia and even become pain free…without drugs, medication, or surgery and without losing any more quality time and missing out on the quality of life you deserve.

Due to the overwhelming amount of patients that have requested Fibromyalgia relief, I’ve decided to create a new consultation that gives sufferers a step-by-step formula to start detecting the source of Fibromyalgia. It’s different than anything else you’ve probably heard of and I would like to offer you a limited opportunity to get for FREE! This is valued up to $295!

Here’s all you need to do to get it:

1. Complete the form above for a FREE Consultation.

2. Immediately after you complete the form, you’ll get your FREE Consultation Certificate instantly in your email!

By the way, you don’t have to decide now if you want or will even need regular treatment- just grab yourFree Fibromyalgia Consultation at our risk by completing the form below before it’s too late. I’m only offering this Fibromyalgia Consultation for FREE, for a limited time. It wouldn’t be fair to our existing patients to book our entire appointment book with free consultations. So we’ve decided that we’ll offer this only for a limited time.

Can I help you get rid of it forever?

Maybe. Maybe not.

The only way to find out is to take the first step by taking action and completing the form below. I know it may be difficult for you to do this. Maybe even the slightest effort is tiresome and a burden. That’s okay, that’s the exact reason why you must force yourself right now to complete the form below and get your FREE Consultation!

You owe it to yourself to finally do something for yourself! Get this thing taken care of once and for all. This is your first step to doing just that….

There is absolutely no way that you can lose – except by not taking me up on risk-free consultation.

Remember, don’t put this off. Even if for some reason you’re still considering surgery, family doctor recommendations, or pills, you must try to solve the real problem first before doing the temporary options and before your problem gets worse and worse due to neglect. We may be able to help, but you must take the action….

Again, just complete the form and let us take care of the rest! The ball is in your court!

To your health,

Dr. Knowles

PS. Remember, this offer is only valid for a limited time. We can’t give this away forever! This is a no obligation FREE consultation to help you determine the exact cause of the symptoms you’re feeling! You’ll then feel great -especially if we detect the exact reason for what’s causing your pain (and even better if you leave with relief!)

How To Avoid The 5 Biggest Mistakes Most People Make When Choosing a Chiropractor Without Even Realizing it

Sat, 26 Feb 2011 23:51:05 MST

“How To Avoid The 5 Biggest Mistakes Most People Make When Choosing a Chiropractor! (Without Even Realizing it!)”

(Don’t make the same mistakes so many wish they avoided…Save yourself pain, time, money and effort by reading this report before you choose a Chiropractor…)

Dear Friend,

Thanks for requesting this report. If you’ve ever had any type of pain, auto accident, work injury, physical ailment, or thought about improving your overall health and wellness, you’ve probably at one point in your life thought about seeing a Chiropractor. Now, you may be at the point where you’re ready to look into it, but you still have some questions…is this you?

Maybe you’ve been to a Chiropractor before and for some reason it didn’t work exactly the way you wanted. Now you want to make sure that this time around you do all you can to make the right decision…is this you?

In any case…

If the word “Chiropractic” has come across your mind recently and you still haven’t taken any action for whatever reason, this little report is well worth the few minutes it will take to read.

As you probably know, Chiropractic is no longer being associated just with just pain relief. Many are seeing a Chiropractor for everything from gaining more energy, losing weight, relaxation, to improving overall health and wellness.

Although Chiropractors don’t have to twist your arm so much anymore about the importance of Chiropractic, and even though the majority of our nation is finally realizing that Chiropractic is just as good for overall health as it is to treat direct pain or injuries, I felt that I had to write this letter to address some important issues for anyone that is considering choosing a Chiropractor. Many choose wrongly and suffer for it physically, mentally and financially.

My name is Dr. %%lastname%% and yes, I am a Chiropractor. However, I’m not writing this primarily to persuade you on becoming a fan of Chiropractic. I simply want to give you a few tips to consider as you make your decision to try Chiropractic or as you find a doctor that is a correct “fit” for you.

The things you’re about to read probably have crossed your mind before, but you may have never realized just how significant they are in regard to making the correct choice and working with a Chiropractor that is right for you.

My goal is, that after reading this, you’ll be motivated enough to make your own decision-but more than that, you’ll make the correct decision and save yourself some pain and suffering. I don’t mean to offend or to take shots at any other doctors out there.

The reason whyso many Chiropractors can operate in such a small area or city is because everyone has a particular “flavor” (if you will) and certain people gel with certain personalities better than others.

I believe, with that in mind, that the following content will address a common denominator regardless of what type of personality profile you fit. Frankly…

The following mistakes must be avoided regardless of what doctor you choose.

With that said, regardless of why you’ve chose to come to this website, you’re about to get a serious “heads up” as you begin your quest for a Chiropractor. It’s not as easy as you think. Not only must you dot your “I’s” and cross your “t’s”, but you need to have yourself mentally prepared also.

Otherwise you will waste valuable time, effort and money in your quest for physical improvement. Unfortunately many mistakes cannot be undone. Hopefully this report will prevent you from making them before it’s too late.

Let’s get right to it and discuss the first mistake people make when choosing a Chiropractor.

The number one mistake people make is they don’t properly identify “why” they want to see a Chiropractor. Yes, that’s right, “why”? Why are you considering a Chiropractor? Don’t get me wrong, many visit the Chiropractic office with a definite goal in mind…such as the patient who says “help me relieve this pain!”

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And that’s fine. Unfortunately, some people finally discover that their reason for becoming a patient isn’t the same reason they began with.

You may be considering a Chiropractor because of an ever present ailment or pain. Or maybe because after trying everything else, nothing worked: pain meds, surgery, fitness, etc. Nothing seems to give you what you’re looking for. Then, all of a sudden, out of nowhere someone says, “Hey…have you thought about seeing a Chiropractor…it really changed my life!”

Then, as a last resort, you say “What the heck!” You make an appointment. After your first visit you say what most do after they’ve lived in pain for such a long time…why didn’t someone tell me about this sooner!!

Then, once the pain is treated and gone…you realize Chiropractic isn’t just for pain, it’s necessary for so much more. There’s true wellness, overall body health, physical appearance, maintenance and so much more. Someone once said, “My people perish for lack of knowledge,” it can also be said for Chiropractic. As many Chiropractors would say,“My patients live in pain for a lack of knowledge.

Without the knowledge of how your body works, and without doing the right maintenance, you body actually will perish much quicker. It breaks down and starts to “misfire” if you will, and atrophy even, because things aren’t aligned and working correctly…

…The problem is you don’t realize this until it’s too late. Once a Chiropractor explains this to the average patient, they’re blown away. It makes so much sense…

They never realize how they lived without taking advantage of the most effective way to heal, maintain, and energize the human body. Not to mention how they fell prey to the fallacies about Chiropractic. What a tragedy when people think it is just for pain and only pain relief.

That is the first mistake people make…they come to a Chiropractor with a closed mind. The “please make me feel better quickly” mindset is all they see.

Instead, when choosing a Chiropractor, they should realize that he or she has trained for years on the human body and may have —just maybe— have some solutions to other problems they never knew they had.

How about you? Can you be open minded? Of course you can. Be open minded and let your Chiropractor explain to you all the amazing health and wellness benefits to Chiropractic lifestyle…it’s not just to relieve pain, it’s to eliminate it! On to the next mistake…

Second mistake people make when choosing a Chiropractor is they think with their wallet instead of with their mind. Money, money, money. Don’t get me wrong, Chiropractic, like all professional medical attention, costs money. However, many times temporary money worries get in the way of improving ones health and even adding years to their life.

Not to mention most insurance covers the cost of Chiropractic care and allows for many types of treatment, many never think that these things are covered. And of course most doctors allow payment plans if you pay cash.

You must realize that the one thing that really separates most Chiropractors from some other professions is they truly love what they do. They’ve dreamed many of nights about helping people the natural way and although you may have come across some unprofessional doctors in your life, give your local Chiropractor a chance regardless of whether or not you feel you can afford it right now. Nothing is more valuable and important than your health.

Even if you think you may not be able to afford it, go in for your free consultation and ask about all the payment options available. However, after all that is said, saying you can’t afford Chiropractic, for most people living in America, is probably an exaggeration…even if the patient had to pay for everything themselves.

Here’s why no one can use the “no money” excuse anymore…

Here are some crazy facts. The average person in America spends $5-10 per day on stuff that tears down their health: soda, fast food, movies, cigarettes, alcohol, etc, etc. Even a slight cut back on these items leaves plenty enough for a few Chiropractic visits. (Think about that and analyze what you spend on unaccountable items each day that actually tear down your health).

Number three….The third mistake people make when choosing a Chiropractor is they let other people make the decision for them rather than looking at the facts first for themselves. It’s funny but if you asked the average person who makes their decisions, they first thing they say…”I make all of my decisions myself!”

However, once you dig deeper and ask them to make a commitment to something like Chiropractic, they want to check with every person under the sun before they commit.

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What I mean is they ask everyone and their brother about how they feel about Chiropractic first. And this is okay. You should ask around and get the opinions of your friends and family.

However, do your own research about Chiropractic and then use your friends and family to help you find a good Chiropractor if they can recommend one.

But don’t let them talk you out of trying Chiropractic treatment because of some preconceived notion they have. Sometimes people talk without knowing all the facts.

They “heard” Chiropractic is “this”, or they heard Chiropractic is “that”. Do the research for yourself. One fallacy about Chiropractic that seems to have been floating around since the beginning is that Chiropractors aren’t as educated as other doctors. This is a total untruth. Many ask…

“How can I be sure my Chiropractor will know what he or she is doing?”

Here’s why…educational requirements for doctors of Chiropractic are among the most stringent of any of the health care professions!

The typical applicant at a Chiropractic college has already acquired nearly four years of pre-medical undergraduate college education, including courses in biology, inorganic and organic chemistry, physics, psychology and related lab work.

Once accepted into an accredited chiropractic college, the requirements become even more demanding — four to five academic years of professional study are the standard. Because of the hands-on nature of Chiropractic, and the intricate adjusting techniques, a significant portion of time is spent in clinical training.

Don’t forget…they’re “doctors”. Doctors of Chiropractic undergo a rigorous education in the healing sciences, similar to that of medical doctors. In some areas, such as anatomy, physiology, and rehabilitation, they receive more intensive education than most medical doctors or physical therapists.

Before they are allowed to practice, doctors of chiropractic must pass national board examinations and become state-licensed. Chiropractors are among the most educated doctors in the world! And best of all…they treat you naturally. And even better…Chiropractic is proven to work!! Listen to what the research has shown…

Chiropractic Comes Out on Top for Acute and Chronic Pain:

“Patients with chronic low-back pain treated by chiropractors showed greater improvement and satisfaction at one month than patients treated by family physicians. Satisfaction scores were higher for chiropractic patients. A higher proportion of chiropractic patients (56 percent vs. 13 percent) reported that their low-back pain was better or much better, whereas nearly one-third of medical patients reported their low-back pain was worse or much worse.”

Nyiendo et al (2000), Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics

“In a randomized controlled trial, 183 patients with neck pain were randomly allocated to manual therapy (spinal mobilization), physiotherapy (mainly exercise) or general practitioner care (counseling, education and drugs) in a 52-week study. The clinical outcomes measures showed that manual therapy resulted in faster recovery than physiotherapy and general practitioner care. Moreover, total costs of the manual therapy-treated patients were about one-third of the costs of physiotherapy or general practitioner care.”

Korthals-de Bos et al (2003), British Medical Journal

In Comparison to Other Treatment Alternatives Chiropractic Wins Again!

“Acute and chronic chiropractic patients experienced better outcomes in pain, functional disability, and patient satisfaction; clinically important differences in pain and disability improvement were found for chronic patients.”

Haas et al (2005), Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics

“In our randomized, controlled trial, we compared the effectiveness of manual therapy, physical therapy, and continued care by a general practitioner in patients with nonspecific neck pain. The success rate at seven weeks was twice as high for the manual therapy group (68.3 percent) as for the continued care group (general practitioner). Manual therapy scored better than physical therapy on all outcome measures. Patients receiving manual therapy had fewer absences from work than patients receiving physical therapy or continued care, and manual therapy and physical therapy each resulted in statistically significant less analgesic use than continued care.”

Hoving et al (2002), Annals of Internal Medicine

Chiropractic Destroys Headaches

“Cervical spine manipulation was associated with significant improvement in headache outcomes in trials involving patients with neck pain and/or neck dysfunction and headache.”

Duke Evidence Report, McCrory, Penzlen, Hasselblad, Gray (2001)

“The results of this study show that spinal manipulative therapy is an effective treatment for tension headaches. . . Four weeks after cessation of treatment . . . the patients who received spinal manipulative therapy experienced a sustained therapeutic benefit in all major outcomes in contrast to the patients that received amitriptyline therapy, who reverted to baseline values.” ‘

Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics, Boline et al. (1995)

Chiropractic is Cost Effective!

“Chiropractic care appeared relatively cost-effective for the treatment of chronic low-back pain. Chiropractic and medical care performed comparably for acute patients. Practice-based clinical outcomes were consistent with systematic reviews of spinal manipulative efficacy: manipulation-based therapy is at least as good as and, in some cases, better than other therapeusis.”

Haas et al (2005), Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics

Chiropractic Patients are More Satisfied!

“Chiropractic patients were found to be more satisfied with their back care providers after four weeks of treatment than were medical patients. Results from observational studies suggested that back pain patients are more satisfied with chiropractic care than with medical care. Additionally, studies conclude that patients are more satisfied with chiropractic care than they were with physical therapy after six weeks.”

Hertzman-Miller et al (2002), American Journal of Public Health

Popularity of Chiropractic Grows Daily!

“Chiropractic is the largest, most regulated, and best recognized of the complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) professions. CAM patient surveys show that chiropractors are used more often than any other alternative provider group and patient satisfaction with chiropractic care is very high. There is steadily increasing patient use of chiropractic in the United States, which has tripled in the past two decades.”

Meeker, Haldeman (2002), Annals of Internal Medicine

You see, Chiropractic is much more effective and popular than many people think. I can go on forever with statistics and research. When you do the research, you find the truth!

With all that said, you still have the “human” factor…I’m referring to the fact that change is uncomfortable. Even with facts and proof, our mind or body still seems to make room for the excuses. Sometimes, we even look for people to talk to that we know will “talk us out of” a decision we know we must make. Please consider these things. Okay, now to the next mistake you have to watch out for…

“This tragic mistake has two parts, equally harmful when overlooked…”

…The first is when people “over commit” to Chiropractic without first doing anything. They become fed up with their pain or problem and say “that’s it, I’m doing it!” And that’s good. But they over commit.

Like many sporadic exercisers at the turn of the New Year that enroll in a fitness center-they change their eating, they start to cut out all the fatty foods and begin a huge exercise program only to crash after a few weeks from burn out!

There’s a good adage that goes something like this… “Always under-promise and over deliver.” This is a great saying for an employee or business owner. However, it’s also good for you when making your initial commitment to Chiropractic.

Don’t overload yourself with huge plan. Take a small step. Also don’t bombard yourself with a tremendous barrage of “what ifs”. “What if I go to the Chiropractor and…?” Or “What if” that. Forget all the “what ifs”. If you’re going to swallow an elephant, do it one bite at a time.

Take a small step, visit a Chiropractor and let them do their evaluation before you worry about the “what ifs” or you make your big plans.

“Here’s why some don’t trust the Chiropractor…”

The second part to this mistake is that people don’t trust the Chiropractor; and it’s not the Chiropractor’s fault. Some people just think that they are more informed and prefer to steer the ship.

They don’t like the idea of anyone, even a Chiropractor that “they” are coming to, to evaluate them and make the plan. Rather “they” want to go in with a plan, even though it may not fit what the Chiropractor (the professional) finds after the examination. This is a prescription for disaster.

When this happens, the patient leaves questioning the accuracy of the prognosis because they were not open minded in the first place. Remember this…“Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you’ll be able to see further.” Keep your first appointment in mind and make that your only commitment and focus for now.

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Just go and wait until you get your evaluation results to ask all the questions. Simply answer the questions that you’re asked and let the doctor earn their pay! And once they begin- trust them.

Many times, people want to commit to something without trusting in the expert that’s guiding them. This always leads to failure. Don’t be a backseat driver in the Chiropractor’s office. All relationships must have trust as the glue that holds them together.

Find a doctor that you like, one that is convenient, has a good reputation, make the appointment, show up and then do what they say! Over committing and not trusting are both very big mistakes.

“The 5th and final mistake is such a biggie, that I believe it’s deep rooted into more than just failing to choose the right Chiropractor…”

The fifth and final mistake is a such a biggie, that I believe it’s the main reason why people not only fail at Chiropractic, but it’s usually at the core of most failures in life. It is a little 15 letter word called “procrastination”. Let’s look at the definition…

Procrastination: To put off doing something, especially out of habitual carelessness or laziness. To postpone or delay needlessly.

Latin: pro: means “forward”. Crastinus means “of tomorrow”

Procrastination in plain English is the art of putting off today what we think we can do tomorrow. I say the “art” because we get skilled at it. We make it seem like there’s actually a real justification for putting off doing something but really, we just don’t want to do it. It’s an art if I ever saw one.

The terrible thing is that the “art of putting off”, turns into a curse because all those “tomorrows” keep piling up, and eventually, this leads to anxiety and even depression. It’s no surprise that studies show that procrastination leads to depression and even family problems.

Procrastination is a sneaky enemy. It sneaks up on you in the appearance of reason and logic. You know the story. “I haven’t joined the gym because I just don’t have the time right now, but as soon as I get the time, I’m going to get down there and begin my exercise program. I don’t want to be irrational and schedule something until I get the time…”

As you know, the “time” never magically appears. It’s made and created by the person based on the priority of the circumstance.

As a matter of fact, any normal person sees that we typically have less and less time. You may say – what does this have to do with choosing a Chiropractor?

Very much does it have to do with it!

For once, you can’t wait for everything to be perfect to make your first appointment or to begin looking for a Chiropractor. You can’t wait for “all the lights to be on green to begin your drive through town.” It just won’t happen.

For instance, you can’t wait until you have the time, the money, until you find the perfect doctor, or until you have the motivation. As a matter of fact, motivation is the biggest reason for procrastination. Coincidentally, there is no “perfect” situation. Many procrastinate waiting for it and suffer greatly as a result.

Many people have a false notion about motivation too. They think that once the “motive” or desire to go to a Chiropractor gets strong enough, then they’ll get “motivated”. Not true. Only when you take the “Action” does motivation come. It’s “motion” before “emotion”. It’s “action” before “motivation.” Take the action and the motivation will come.

The biggest threat of procrastination is not just the depression or feeling of failure it brings…in the case of Chiropractic, it is worse…it’s physical too.

“Many problems and ailments could have been avoided if the person just did this a little sooner…”

The longer you wait, the worse your physical condition gets. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen situations where many problems and ailments could have been avoided if the person just took the action sooner and stopped making all the excuses sooner. And that’s what really procrastination is…different variations of excuses.

With all that said, let me ask you…is your health, wellness or pain relief important to you? If it is, what’s been stopping you from making the commitment to at least visit a Chiropractor for an evaluation?

I know Chiropractic can help you, but I can’t come to your house and examine you…you must make the commitment and take action. You have to eliminate any procrastination and make an appointment with a Chiropractor!

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Forget risking making any of these mistakes, especially the last one. The good thing is you took some action by requesting and reading this report. That’s good. That’s a start. But let me ask…do you feel any better physically or mentally since you read this report? Nope. You need to actually go to a Chiropractor for that!

Seriously, your health and life is too important to put this off any longer. I hope you at least allow someone to help. It’s correct to say that I would welcome the opportunity to give you a free consultation. But if it’s not our clinic, at least choose a Chiropractor elsewhere.

Maybe you’re reading this and you’re not in our area, or you live too far from our office. That’s fine, open the phone book or ask around, but go to someone. I am not only a doctor, but as you can see an advocate of Chiropractic for all people.

“If you do live in our area, here’s what I’m thinking…”

…And I’ll make this a real no brainer for you. (As a matter of fact, if you resist this, you’ll really have a hard time explaining this away as a true excuse)…I would like to offer you a totally free consultation/examination. That’s right…totally free.

You don’t have to pay anything, and there’s no obligation either. Meaning, you’re not going to come in and then have someone tell you it’s only free if…. Your consultation is free no matter what, even if you decide to never step foot in our office ever again.

My goal is to make this first step easy for you. To get you to come in and have you and I talk about what’s been going on. I’ll show you and explain to you exactly how Chiropractic can help your specific situation, how long it will take to start seeing results and then the ball will be in your court.

We’ll tell you everything you need to know about what symptoms you’re having and give you all the information you need to make a smart decision. Even if you just want to do preventive maintenance, I’ll show how many like you are living happier, healthier and longer lives because they incorporated Chiropractic into their lifestyle.

In pain? Not only will you eliminate pain, but you’ll know for sure you’re getting to the core of the problem. Meds, surgery, drugs, pain killers, etc, simple numb your pain and avoid fixing the problem. Say goodbye to quick fixes. You’ll know that you’re taking the best care of the best gift that you have-your body and your health.

Don’t procrastinate with your heath. There’s probably still time in your situation, but I can’t guarantee it. Take a second and complete the form below and we’ll set aside some time for you to come in and get checked out right away.

Thanks for reading this report. Hope it helped and brings you a step closer to feeling better and getting your situation taken care of. Got questions? Complete the form below and we’ll be happy to answer them either via email or when we set up your appointment.

Thanks again,

Dr. Knowles

PS. Remember, procrastination in plain English is the art of putting off today what we think we can do tomorrow. I say the “art” because we get skilled at it. We make it seem like there’s actually a real justification for putting off doing something but really, we just don’t want to do it. Don’t put this off. You’ve come this far. You’re one step away from making the next step. Complete the form and get your free consultation/ examination today.

Discover How To Get Rid Of Your Headaches The Safe and Easy Way

Sat, 26 Feb 2011 23:41:47 MST

NEW! Just Released: Local Headache Doctor Exposes The Shocking Truth AboutRelieving Your Head Pain…

The Secret To Relieving Your Headaches May Be Sitting Right in Front of You… “Discover How To Get Rid Of Your Headaches The Safe and Easy Way!

Imagine…Your Headaches Are Gone…Life Is Better…And You Can Finally Rest Knowing The Hidden Problem That Was Causing Your Aching Head!

Wednesday, 6:45 pm

Dear Headache Sufferer,

I’m happy to say that, if you suffer from chronic, never ending headaches, migraines, or any head pain whatsoever,you may have just stumbled upon the most critical piece of information you’ve ever read! Yes, you’re about to discover the true reason why many people suffer from headaches, but I have to warn you, when you read what I’m about to reveal to you, it may shock you.

You’re going to be shocked, thrilled and blown away–all at the same time! When you see the true culprit behind many excruciating headaches you will be thrilled, but it’s going to shock you and blow you away because of how easy it may be for you to relieve your headaches!

You’ll scream to yourself wondering why you haven’t received this information sooner! Why your doctor, your friends, or even your specialist didn’t tell you about this simple, safe and easy pain relieving process outlined in this report.

Believe or not, most doctors don’t know about this – for one good reason: they don’t help many people relieve headaches! What you need is real answers from someone that does it for a living. And that’s exactly what you’re going to get here.

I’m going to hand you everything you need to do to safely and easily relief your headaches! In order to do this, you must do one tiny thing first…you must read the next statement carefully, and then wholeheartedly agree to empathically answer “yes!”

“Are You Really Ready To Totally Forget Everything Everyone (Yes, Even Your Doctor) Has Told You About Relieving Headache Pain?”

If not, nothing I tell you will matter and you’ll waste the next 3 minutes listening to me babble about headache relief and do nothing about applying the information to help yourself.

What I’m going to speak with you about is factual truth. My name is Dr. Knowles and I help people get rid of headaches for a living.

In other words, I treat and help headache sufferers every day. I help people like you relieve their headaches and get their life back.

Chances are, what you’ve heard about headache relief in the past is what I call 50/50 information….50% Wrong And 50% Someone’s Opinion…..No Factual Proof…Mostly A Bunch Of Old Wives’ Tales!

I’m happy to share with you the “truth”, without hype, without guessing, without fluff. I’m kind of angry because many of my current patients started out being fooled. They were hopeless.

They thought headaches were genetic or some weird side effect of food they ate or some other fallacy. “It doesn’t have to be that way,” I’d tell them when they first didn’t believe how fast I could possibly help them. Now many are living life pain-free without headaches. I’m telling you the same…you may not have to suffer anymore!

You must be sick and tired of headaches and sick and tired of hearing the same thing everyday…..By now, I’m sure you agree…

“Headaches Ruin, (And I Mean Ruin,) Everything!”

Does any of this sound familiar? I’m sure you hear yourself saying things like this in conversations everyday…

“I have a headache again!”

“My head hurts!”

“Mr. or Mrs. Supervisor, I won’t be in today, I have one of those headaches…again.”

“I can’t go out tonight, my head hurts again!”

“I can feel a pulse in my head! What’s wrong with me?”

“It feels like I have a headache in my eye!”

“My head hurts…all the way down into my neck!”

“Didn’t I just have a headache the day before yesterday?”

“I’m nauseous, my head hurts…why does this happen all the time?”

Maybe you’ve been experiencing splitting headaches your whole life and just have learned to accept them. Maybe you’ve become so used to taking aspirin or pain reliever that you’ve learned to depend on them thinking it’s the only way you can survive.

If any of the above sounds familiar, your body is acting in a way that it’s not supposed to. You may feel that headaches are normal. A part of life. They shouldn’t be. (Even if your day to life may imply otherwise).

It seems you can have the best day planned, the most exciting night planned, you can be with your favorite people simply trying to have a good time, or maybe even relaxing at home, but then it happens…your headache returns and causes not only uncomfortable pressure and pain, but also a chunk of life gets removed from each of your experiences.You’re missing out. Your headaches are truly affecting your happiness and peace of mind.

It’s not worth it, and I’m about to show you how “pain free” may be possible for you. I’m about to give you all the information you need so can you know that you don’t have to live like this anymore. You’re probably wondering why your head is bothering you so much…

“Here’s The Underlying Reason For Your Head Pain…”

I want you to think back for a second, maybe one, two, three even ten years back. Do you ever remembering playing rough house with your kids? Playing football or falling down diving for a softball, or even falling on the basketball court or in the yard?

Have you been in a car accident? Did you ever experience any type of trauma (minor or major) within the past 10-20 years? If you answered yes to any of these, you may be suffering from a typical headache that 90% of doctors and so-called specialists misdiagnose…it’s called a Cervicogenic headache. Just a fancy way of saying a headache, but with “the head” not really being the source of the actual pain.

These type headaches are sometimes characterized by pain on one side of the head, sometimes with associated neck pain on the same side but not always. Someone with these headaches perceives pain in the head, but the actual source of the pain lies in the cervical spine.

I specialize in helping people detect and relieve not only these type of headaches, but most types of headaches, by pinpointing the originating source of the headache then carefully abolishing the culprit with a strategic attack at its core.

This sometimes instantly relieves thepain and/or perception of pain in the head or neck area and many people feel better right away. Sound good? Keep reading because these types of headache diagnoses are good and bad.

First, they’re good because once they’re addressed properly by a headache specialist like myself, they’re sometimes gone in a short period of time.

They’re bad because if the person experiencing headaches doesn’t address the problem soon enough, the type of fast, relieving remedy I can sometimes provide in some situations doesn’t work as quickly and effectively (or may not work at all).

My point is this: if youfeel you’ve been suffering from headaches too long, and they come and go too often, you may have a Cervicogenic type of headache. I can’t guarantee it, but I’m almost sure. Let me help you try to get rid of the pain and do my best to tell you what’s going on.

Here’s what I have in mind:

I would like to offer you an exclusive opportunity for a Headache Pain Consultation. My office is located right here in Boulder and we have convenient hours almost every day of the week. The best part is that this valued up to $295 and it’s yours FREE!

“What You MUST Do To Get Rid Of The Pain.”

Although it is free, and you pay nothing, you do have to complete the form below as soon as possible to get it. It will only be available for a limited time for free. Once you do complete the form below, you’ll receive an instant FREE Headache Consultation Certificate in your email worth up to $295! Finally, you’ll have taken a significant step to begin living pain free!

This is such a no brainer. Once you get the certificate and look it over, and if you decide to come in for your FREE Headache Consultation, I’ll run a few tests, tell you what’s wrong, and give you a recommended action plan. You have nothing to lose but your headache! Oh, one more thing…

We’ve recently advertised this website so we are being inundated with FREE Consultations right now, so, in order to continue to give our regular patients the time they need, like I said before, we have to put a limit on how many of these we can give away.

Again, this FREE Headache Consultation is “free” for a limited time only, so please don’t delay. I know you’re truly serious about getting rid of your headaches, so here’s what to do now:

1. Complete the Free Consultation Form on our site above.

2. You’ll instantly receive a Free Consultation Certificate Valued up to $295 in your email.

Look over your Certificate and if you have any questions, feel free to give us a call. Hope this report sheds some light on your headache problem, however, without taking the action to find out why you’re getting headaches, nothing is going to change!

It’s great because many people who do this never thought they could actually get rid of theirheadaches safely, easily, and in a healthy way! They can. They did! Now you can too…

Complete the form below and get your Free Headache Consultation Certificate Valued up to $295 instantly in your email!

Thanks,

Dr. Knowles

PS. You Have Everything You Need To Take The First Step In Relieving Your Headaches! Just Complete The Form Below Right Now And Get Your Free Headache Consultation Instantly (Value up to $295!) In Your Email!

Local Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Doctor Exposes The Shocking Truth About Relieving Wrist Pain

Sat, 26 Feb 2011 23:34:47 MST

NEW! Just Released: Local Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Doctor Exposes The Shocking Truth About Relieving Wrist Pain…

“FREE Report Exposes The Shocking Truth About Relieving Carpal Tunnel Syndrome…

(Plus Why Many Doctors May Wish You Never Found This Website!)

In The Next 4 Minutes, You’re Gonna Discover Exactly How You Can Relieve Your Wrist Pain Using The ‘Safe & Healthy’ Way. Maybe Even Feel Better Quickly, Without Having To Get Surgery, Wear The Splints, Or Take Dangerous Drugs!

This Free Report Delivers The “How-To” Secrets To Relieving Wrist Pain…So You Can Stop Your Wrists From Aching And Get Your Life Back Now…Plus, All The Answers You Want About The Horrifying Ailment Of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome! Read Below..

Monday, 7:45 pm

Dear Carpal Tunnel Sufferer,

You’re about to get the real deal, the plain truth on how to get relief from Carpal Tunnel Pain the safe and healthy way. Most sufferers in Boulder never knew this tiny little unknown truth until they read this report. Their eyes became open to the simple solution…and they finally rejoiced when they relieved this dastardly condition of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome!

If you have wrist pain or you’ve been suffering from any variation of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, you’re going to love this letter! It truly contains the secret to relieving your wrist pain and healing Carpal Tunnel Syndrome in a safe, healthy way! And you may be saying right now , “That’s all great, fine and dandy…

….BUT IT HURTS AND I CAN’T TAKE IT…WHAT CAN I DO?!”

I know. It hurts. You hate typing, You hate writing, You’re not as effective and productive. You can’t take the pain!! You’re fed up. Your aching wrists just about ruin everything from your productivity at work to a night out with your friends. And it seems you’ve tried everything. You do the stretches, the bends, the walks to the water fountain, anything to ease and forget about the pain.

You probably remember when you first started to experience discomfort. You probably never imagined it would get like this. You thought it would go away, but like so many others, it just keeps getting worse. You hear the horror stories of surgery, maybe you’re considering it. Even though you don’t want to go through with it…you just want your wrists back!

I know it’s difficult. I see many people such as yourself that ask, “When is it going to stop?”

Hi, my name is Dr. Knowles. I have helped many people with wrist pain and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. I decided to write this report because my office is flooded with people asking questions about Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Like yourself they want answers.

Believe me, I want to help you but if you want the pain to stop, you must listen very closely to what I’m about to say about getting your life back and relieving the pain in your wrist. And you should forget about everything you ever heard before about wrist pain and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. You may even have to take a few steps back. It’s not your fault. I’m sure you’ve tried to get the right help, but only the truth is going to help you now.

It’s like going through a tough emotional, disagreement with a close friend and then trying to make the situation better by approaching the individual to rectify everything, but in the process of doing so, you make the matter worse. The person became angry. As a result, they don’t want to speak to you anymore. How would that make you feel? The feeling would be terrible.

You see, you took a step forward to make things right, but ended up going three steps back. It’s the same with many Carpal Tunnel Sufferers. If they only knew what you’re about to discover, it could have possibly saved them time, money, and many days of pain and suffering…

“Here’s The Grave Mistake That Many Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Victims Make…”

Taking 3 steps back is bad but it’s because most people believe and fall prey to all the fallacies and old wives’ tales that are out there about Carpal Tunnel relief.

For instance, when most of my Carpal Tunnel patients first come in, I ask them (most walk into my office with their splints on or their pills in hand, eyes watering with pain as they take out their insurance card or to complete the patient questionnaire), “What took you so long, what prevented you from coming in sooner?”

Nine out of ten times these helpless almost hopeless patients reply, “My family doctor told me to ___________” Or “My good friend told me to__________” …”but it didn’t work, I’m still in pain and I can’t take it!”

Now, you can fill in the blanks above with:

-take medication -wear these splints -get a cortisone shot -have surgery -do these exercises

the list goes on…

Why didn’t these things work to cure their Carpal Tunnel aches and pains? Why do many people GET WORSE when they do these things? Why don’t these things work for many, misled people every day? Simple. The reason is: These are temporary solutions. They address the symptom not the problem.

Then why are all these fallacies and old wives’ tales circulating so fast and being believed by the public? Who’s spreading them? Unfortunately, most of the time it’s doctors who really don’t know any better. Are the doctors hiding something, and why don’t they just come clean and give us the real deal answers?

“Why Many Doctors Wish You Never Knew This Little Tiny Secret…”

First, don’t get me wrong, I love family doctors! I have nothing against them. However, if my family doctor tried to fix my plumbing, I wouldn’t feel he was qualified or knowledgeable about this subject. This goes exactly the same with most doctors regarding Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.

They don’t have a clue how to fix the problem because it’s not what they were trained to do! Nothing against them, they just weren’t schooled on finding the cures, i.e., treating the cure of wrist pain or Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. They’re not a doctor that exclusively deals with Carpal Tunnel sufferers everyday, day in, and day out.

Many don’t want you to know that finding the source of the pain will cure the problem, because they are not trained to find the source. No one likes to expose their “lack of”, especially when that someone is supposed to know. This results in un-needed operations and useless procedures, both we’ll speak about that in a second.

To sum it up, most doctors treat the wrist, i.e., the spot of the pain, not the actual source of pain. In effect, they treat the symptom not the root of the problem. It’s not because they’re intentions are bad, it’s just because they’re not trained to treat the root of the problem, only the symptoms.

My goal with the next 3-5 minutes is to give you some critical knowledge and information that will help you take the steps to relieve your wrist pain the safe and healthy way by finding the exact culprit that’s causing it!

Carpal Tunnel wrist pain is tough to live with. You’re constantly nagged. It’s incredible how such a small thing can literally ruin your quality of life, your productivity and even your quest towards your family and personal goals.

You must not allow some silly little carpal bones in your wrist rob you of the quality of life you deserve. However, whatever you do, despite how desperate you may be getting, do not go the route I’m about to explain…

“Discover What Happens To Many People Who Try To Treat Their Carpal Tunnel Pain With Drugs, Surgery Or Wrist Splints!”

(The Horrifying Truth About What These Things Do To Carpal Tunnel Sufferers)

Plain and simple, drugs and medication may make things worse for you. They’re a temporary fix. They numb the pain only, they do not heal the problem. They also have deadly side effects. One woman I know was on cortisone too long, became dependent on it, and literally destroyed her bone structure. Her bones became weak and fragile and would break at the slightest impact.

Then we have the surgical option. Carpal Tunnel surgery is rarely successful. A man I know had surgery just a few months ago. Not only was he out of work for 3-4 weeks (only received basic pay, lost money), but his surgery made things worse. Now he doesn’t have any feeling in his index finger tip and still suffers from wrist pain. In many cases, surgery is rolling the dice, taking a wishful shortcut that rarely solves the problem permanently.

Wrist splints are not only can be embarrassing, but face it, wrist splints are uncomfortable. They stand out and they make everyone look at you wondering what’s going on.

I believe the biggest problem with wrist splints is they are just another form of temporary relief and they cause scar tissue to develop in the wrist which can lead to bigger, long term problems. Wearing wrist splints is like wearing a band aid when you really need stitches; not only does it leave you open for worst problems, it’s only a temporary fix, it doesn’t “heal” the problem.

So, what do you do to cure your Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, to relieve the ache and get back to doing the things you used to do before the sore, tender wrist pain came along? You must take some sort of action that will get to the root of your problem and systematically work to take care of your pain once and for all!

“Give Me 10-15 Minutes And You May Be On Your Way To Being Pain FREE, Have Your Life Back, And Avoid Any Future Pain And Suffering”

If you’re willing to simply take an action step in the right direction, you can be pain free and get your life back fast, but more importantly, avoid any future pain and suffering.This is where most people have the most trouble. Not actually knowing what they must do, it’s actually doing it. Procrastination is the biggest obstacle you need to overcome.

The best way to do this is to force yourself to move away from any excuse, and take definite action towards what you know needs to be done. Are you beyond the thinking stage and ready to take the action you need to? If so, in a minute I’m going to ask you to give me 10-15 minutes of your time and a total opportunity to take the first step you need to start working on fixing your wrist pain.

You need to take advantage of this opportunity so someone that deals with this everyday can determine your actual reason for wrist pain.

The bottom line of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is that there is a tightening of the structures of the wrist causing an irritation on the tendons and sheaths, nerves and blood vessels passing through the wrist.

Before doing anything, you must have someone examine the wrist and hand to determine if you do indeed have Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Even though you may have been diagnosed with it, it may be something totally different and easier to fix.

Several specific orthopedic, chiropractic and nerve tests can be done to accurately determine CTS. The proper diagnosis must rule out misalignments, fractures, rheumatoid or osteoarthritis and Paget’s disease, gout.myxedema, multiple myleoma, acromegaly (and other big words that sound complicated).These tests are quick and simple. But they will put us in the right ball park to hopefully discovering and curing your pain.

Carpal tunnel syndrome can come from many things, not just wrist problems: 1. Muscle spasms in the chest

2. Neck vertebrae that need chiropractic adjustment

3. Nerves that are pressed between the collarbone and ribs (from carrying heavy items on the shoulders such as a one side backpack strap or handbag or ropes over shoulders to carry buckets, etc.)

4. Vertebrae in the upper back (or, for that matter, anywhere in the spine) that need adjustment or alignment

5. Incorrect ergonomics or “not working smart”, which leads to various muscle spasms and distorted posture, resulting in nerve irritation

6. Clenching or grinding teeth, which can cause myofascial pain dysfunction syndrome, affecting the whole body, shoulders, arms and hands included

7. Subluxations and/or muscle spasms anywhere from the hand and arm up to the neck

Wouldn’t you want to rule out these things so you know for sure what’s going on?

“Who Else Wants Live Pain FREE…FOR FREE?“

We’re located right here in Boulder and we can help determine the source of your pain for zero costs, i.e., FREE. That’s right FREE! We’re offering any Carpal Tunnel sufferer a free diagnostic test and consultation that may determine exactly what is causing the wrist pain, and we’ll give this to you absolutely for FREE! All you have to do is say yes and take it.

This Free Consultation is valued up to $175 and will only be available for a limited time by completing the form below.

For you, it’s perfect timing. Here’s why:

First, you must take care of your problem. You need to find out exactly what the real, true cause of your wrist pain is. We’ve already established all that.

Second, you don’t want to continue to hope you’ll find out on your own and put off the problem even more than you may have already. You know that, chances are, you’ll develop an advanced case of serious wrist malfunction. This would be very bad.

Third, you also know that it’s not the smartest thing to go to a non-wrist pain doctor because he or she may recommend some of the not so smart things we spoke about: drugs, surgery, meds, etc. All very bad and moving in the opposite direction you need to be going.

Fourth, you need to spend a few minutes with a doctor that deals with wrist pain and Carpal Tunnel pain. That’s exactly what we do here at Network Family Wellness Center

To get your Free Consultation, just complete the form below. After you complete the form below, we’ll send you an instant Free Consultation Certificate worth up to $175. You can look it over. When you come in for your Free Consultation, we’ll do an evaluation anddo our best to pinpoint the exact problem so we can concentrate on the healing the root of the problem not the symptom. In other words,

“If You Want To Feel Better And Finally Take Care Of Your Wrist Pain, Take This Tiny Little First Step And Work Towards Getting Rid Of It For Good!”

25 individuals that were diagnosed with Carpal Tunnel Syndrome reported significant improvements in several measures of strength, range of motion, and pain after receiving treatment you’re going to get!

Chances are, we can get you feeling better! Here’s what you need to do now if you want to take the first steps to get your life back and rid your wrists of that awful nagging feeling:

Simply complete the form below and get the Free Consultation Certificate (Value up to $295) instantly in your email…

Set aside a few minutes and look it over. If you decide to, we can meet at my office at a convenient time for you, I’ll evaluate you, do my best to target the problem and give you an action plan to relieve the pain! In any case, grab the Free Consultation Certificate by completing the form at the top of our site.

You have nothing to lose. Let us help you, it’s what we do every day and we know exactly what you’re going through.

Again, just complete the form and let us take care of the rest. The ball’s in your court!

To your health,

Dr. Knowles

The Secret To Back Pain Relief How To Get Rid Of Nagging Back Pain Without Drugs Or Surgery

Sat, 26 Feb 2011 23:27:15 MST

“The Secret To Back Pain Relief: How To Get Rid Of Nagging Back Pain …Without Drugs Or Surgery”

Dear Back Pain Sufferer,

If you’re looking for a way to relieve your back pain, you’re going to love this letter. As promised, here’s what it contains:

The key to relieving your back pain without using drugs, surgery or any weird remedies or quick fixes

4 Secrets To Back Pain Relief: You get the shocking truth about getting rid of back pain that many back pain sufferers discover after it’s too late.

The one step you can take to possibly relieve your back pain once and for all.

Are you like the hundreds of people in Boulder, who are a bit skeptical about promises regarding back pain relief? You may be saying, “Yeah right, back pain secret, I’ve tried everything” …or “I’ve heard it all before, I’ve been to the doctors, seen the specialists….and my back still aches!”

If any of this is you…it’s okay, you’ll quickly change your mind when you, like them, see how simple it may be to finally heal, fix and relieve the main culprit that’s causing your back pain. More on that in a minute. First, before you go any further, read the next statement very carefully. Don’t read even one more word of this letter until you agree to

“Forget Everything Anyone Has Ever Told You About Relieving Back Pain …You May Be Able To Feel Better In A Short Period Of Time!”

Even if you’re in severe pain and fed up with not being able to sit, stand or even sleep without discomfort…maybe you’ve been suffering this way for months or even years. Forget about those previous crazy promises, weird solutions or diagnosis some doctors, friends or even so-called specialists have told you.

You’re about to get the “no hype” natural way to back pain relief…without all the glitz and glamour.

Let me introduce myself…my name is Dr. Knowles. I help people that suffer from back pain. As a matter of fact, most of my day consists of helping people in your exact, painful situation. Many people come to my office each day with back pain, and within a short period of time, become pain free. This doesn’t happen with everyone. Sometimes it takes days, even weeks before the pain is totally gone.

We have an office right here in Boulder and I love hearing or even seeing the tremendous impact our team is making in the lives of so many people in our neighborhood. Some of our patients suffered with back pain for a long time. Some caught the problem in the beginning stages (very smart). But all of them, before they found us, were severely suffering. Maybe like you are right now.

The pain was impeding on their quality of life, stopping them from doing activities they enjoyed, and virtually ruining their zest for life. Every day,whether it was a night out with the family, or a day home with the kids, was wrecked due to the inconvenient pain in their lower or upper back.

“Here’s What You Need To Know To Relieve Your Back Pain Now And How To Possibly Prevent It From Getting Any Worse…”

I wrote this Free Report to tell you that you may not have to suffer anymore. It’s a little longer than what you’re used to reading, and it may take you 5-10 minutes to read, but it’s the best 10 minutes of text any back pain sufferer could ever read.

It contains what you need to know if you want to get rid of your pain now, and prevent it from getting any worse. But what if you’ve been down this road before? Or what if you’re planning on seeing another doctor for your problem…maybe you’ve already made an appointment with another so called specialist?

All this doesn’t matter. Even if you’ve seen 14 doctors, spent thousands on specialists and even had surgery…after taking this tiny little action step that I’m about to propose to you, you may become closer to living without back pain than you’ve ever have before.

As you can see, I am fond of doctors; I am one. So, don’t misunderstand or take what I’ve said or am about to say, in the wrong way.

Many doctors have the knowledge and training and have helped millions cure ailments, treat diseases, and even heal those that are sick. Our world really wouldn’t the same without them. So, it’s not that I’m not fond of doctors, I’m just not fond of when a doctor tries to fix my car. (A doctor fixing my car?)

You see, when you have a problem that is affecting your quality of life, a problem that’s preventing you from enjoying time with your family, stopping you from living life to the fullest….and when this problem is beyond your control to fix, you must find someone who can help you solve that problem. Someone who deals in exactly what you have. Someone who knows your problem better than you know it despite living with it for so long!

You see, if my car isn’t running well, if it’s stalling, the engine fails, and tires go flat, the last person I go to is a doctor. Why? Chances are they don’t know about these things because they aren’t or weren’t trained to deal with them or treat them.

I know right now your back is probably aching. You’re in serious discomfort. So the last thing you want to hear right now are analogies about doctors fixing cars, or anything else OTHER THAN specific ways you can quickly and finally stop the pain and suffering you have in that darn back.

On the other hand, if you waste time listening to people who are not familiar with your problem or haven’t had any experience solving a problem such as yours, and who do not have training and/or knowledge about the solution to your problem, you’re going to waste more time, not to mention your problem will most likely worsen, which can increase and prolong your suffering for months or perhaps even years.

“Who Else Wants A Possible Solution To Relieve Their Back Pain, Maybe Even Once And For All?”

I’ve said all that to say this: What you’re feeling right now…the excruciating pain in your back, the emotional pain of being frustrated and agitated daily because of this needling obstacle in your life which prevents you from enjoying anything, or the mental pain of feeling like you don’t have a place to turn…you need a doctor that knows about back pain, one that lives, breathes and eats what you’re going through, to give you the solution to help you and make you feel better….I believe I can help you.

Why? Well, it’s not only because I’ve had the training and experience to solve your back problem, it’s also because I’m going to have the guts to tell you exactly how it is, and how you may be able to relieve your back pain very soon.

Even if you just read this report and never contact our office in the future, the information I’m about to share with you may save you years of pain and suffering if you listen carefully.

First, let me say that many doctors do not know how to treat back pain. Some are what I call”West Side Story” doctors. The only way they know how to solve their patients problem is by slicing and dicing with a knife!

Despite all the education, the logic is absent and prevents them from solving the true problem. As a result, many back pain sufferers make their pain worse after surgery. Please, and listen very closely right now, do not think that back surgery is the answer. Yes, many people have done the surgery and have gotten worse(Up to 80%!)

So, why do many doctors recommend surgery so often? Well, that’s a good question. For one, surgery is big bucks for the doctor that performs it. However, there are many times when a patient legitimately needs surgery. Some wounds, accidents and natural born deformities require surgery. However, for the average back pain sufferer, SURGERY may not be needed.This may include you.

“Why Do People Have Surgery Even When They’ve Seen And Heard About The Poor Results? Just Ask This Person…”

Good question. Ask the man I recently read about that was mountain climbing. (This is a true story and you can probably remember reading about it a few months back.)

He was thousands of feet on the side of a mountain when he ran into a bit of a problem. His arm got caught between a rock and with his hang cord. His literally hung there trying to release himself for over 48 hours! His life was now in danger. He had to make a decision.

Will he starve up there, die, or will he choose to cut his arm off!! (I don’t mean to get so graphic, but the point of this story will be an eye opener for you if you’re even slightly considering surgery.) He chose the latter. Yes, he chose to cut it (arm) off. True story.

With his small buck knife he slowly removed his arm so he could free himself from dying. He later said that he didn’t regret his decision. He said he would rather save his life and live it with one arm, than have the opposite happen.

The last thing in the world any of us would want to do is cut our arm off! However, if it meant our life was at risk, we might consider it, but only in that situation would we do something so desperate. Which leads me to this:Why would someone cut off his or her arm? DESPERATION! No other choice! The lastoption! The only option!

Why does someone with back get their back operated on? Why do they choose the “cut” option? DESPERATION! The only option! No other choice!

Someone once said, “My people perish for lack of knowledge!” also, “With knowledge comes responsibility!” After reading the rest of this free report and I reveal to you a simple, effective way to possibly relieve your back pain without surgery, you will no longer have to consider getting surgery because you will have the knowledge of a tiny little secret that many people who get surgery don’t even know about until it is too late. Fortunately, this isn’t going to be you.

“So, if my family doctor really doesn’t know how to eliminate back pain and the only thing he or she can do is recommend me to a back doctor, then how can I get help to remove my back pain?”

The answer is revealed by starting on “page 1″.

“Don’t Start Here If You Want To Relieve Your Back Pain!”

Most start on page 2.This is wrong.

“Give me some pain killers!” “AHHHH I feel better!” “Wait a minute, it hurts again…” “AHHH, more pain killers, I feel better!” Wait a minute….” and so on.

Or, “My doctor told me I just have to live with the pain…” Or, “I’ll just go get another MRI, maybe they’ll find something this time…” Or, “Maybe I’ll just take the plunge and get the surgery, I’ll only be out of work for a few weeks, forget about the risks or side effects…I’ll be okay…”

My suffering friend, this is all starting on page 2, you’re smarter than that…start on page 1!

“Okay, how do I start on page 1?”

ANSWER: YOU must start by helping yourself to acknowledge the following 4 Secrets that most back pain sufferers don’t know or choose to ignore about their back pain:

1. Back pain is a symptom, usually not the problem. 2. Back pain isn’t permanently eliminated by drugs (this is the biggest deception). 3. Your body is equipped with a built in “back pain removal system” for me to use anytime. 4. Back pain gets worse by my lack of maintenance and poor physical health.

Listen, this isn’t some mumbo jumbo stupid attempt to get you to buy some supplements or magic back pain relief pill.This is me trying desperately to tell you, “DO NOT GO ANY FURTHER…YOU MAY BE GOING THE WRONG WAY, LET ME HELP YOU!!! YOUR BACK MAY BE ABLE TO FEEL BETTER, AND YOU MAY BE ABLE TO LIVE PAIN FREE, STOP, STOP!!

“Here’s The 4 Secrets To Start Living Life Again And To Stop Your Back Pain From Ruling Your Life”

Here’s how to relieve back pain the safe and healthy way…

In each section you’ll find several secrets to relieving back pain the safe and healthy way:

Secret #1: Know that back pain is a symptom, usually not the problem.

Imagine going into a new home that you’re considering buying. You see how beautifully laid out it is, the creative architecture, and you’re admiring the gorgeous pictures on all the walls.

Then, for one reason or another, you notice a small mark peeking out behind one of the pictures. You walk closer to investigate and you notice that behind the picture there’s a gigantic hole. You then remove the picture from the wall and see that the hole is deep and wideand inside are tiny little insects covering the entire frame of the wall.

Naturally, you continue to look into this further and realize that the entire house is rotting away due to termites. You ask the owners of the house what they’re doing about it and they respond by telling you not to worry about it. Their game plan is to cover the holes with as many pictures as possible. As the termites eat away at the walls, just put up more pictures.

This is a perfect example of how most people treat back pain! Instead of dealing with the problem, they deal with the symptom. They put a proverbial band aid on their back, thinking this will cure the excruciating pain!

It’s like the analogy of rubbing this back pain relief report on your back expecting it to heal it. Would that work? Of course not. Then why would you expect your back pain to be gone unless you discover and find out the true reason your back hurts!!!

Your body is like a big ship floating at sea. When a hole gets poked into the ship, regardless of where the hole is, the entire ship will start to sink! You can’t sink half of a ship!

Your back pain can be caused by a variety of “holes” in your ship. You need someone to help you discover each “hole”, patch it up, and the malfunctioning part of the ship will run properly again. You’ll start feeling like yourself again, pain free and living life to the fullest.

For instance, there are many nerves that connect to sections of your back. If one, even one, of these tiny little nerves is “touched” improperly, it can feel as if a knife is jabbing into your back.

Back Pain Relief Secret #1: Fix the problem not the symptom:

Stop the pain fast by finding out what’s really causing it; fix the problem and feel great! (I’ll show you how to do this for free in a second, but first let me share with you the biggest deception back pain sufferers fall prey to everyday and how you can avoid this and prevent physical and mental disaster!)

“Discover One Of The Biggest Deceptions Back Pain Sufferers Fall Prey To Everyday And How You Can Avoid This And Prevent Physical And Mental Disaster!”

Secret #2: Know that back pain isn’t permanently eliminated by drugs (this is the biggest deception):

I know of a young boy who had a disastrous visit with his dentist when he was four years old. It started when he had a weird allergic reaction to milk as a baby. The allergic reaction destroyed his baby teeth, and to prevent his permanent teeth from being affected, the dentist had to put caps on his teeth when he was 3 years old.

When he was 4, his mother brought him to the dentist to remove his caps and the dentist had to give him Novocain so he wouldn’t feel any pain when removing the caps. The procedure was successful, and the dentist instructed the boy that his mouth would be totally numb for a few hours. His mother reminded him not to bite his lip, which he had a habit of doing on a regular basis.

She said because of the numbing, he could possible do serious damage to his mouth if he bit his lip. Like most 4 year olds, who sometimes do exactly opposite of what mommy says, the young boy began to bite and chew at his lip in the waiting room as his mother was taking care of the paper work with the secretary.

Before long, blood began to stream out of the boy’s mouth. He couldn’t feel it because his mouth was numb, so he continued to chew and bite. When his mother saw him she noticed the blood and rushed him to the emergency room for stitches. He had literally bit the inside of his mouth almost completely through the cheek!

Obviously, this story wouldn’t have happened to an adult, right? An adult would be smarter than that right? You would think so, but unfortunately some adults do this same thing with their back because of medication!

You see, your back pain can probably be fixed when we discover what’s causing it. However, if you become deceived and take drugs to eliminate the pain, all you may do is make it worse!! Avoid destroying your back or making it worse and get as far away from pain killers as possible!!

Pain killers simple shut off your brain from feeling your pain. They tell your brain not to acknowledge the pain. However, the pain is still there. You just don’t feel it! This fools and/or deceives you into doing things you wouldn’t normally do, and makes it worse.

Pain killers are not good. Before you choose to take another pill or even decide to start, if you haven’t already, find out what’s causing that pain!!!

Back Pain Relief Secret #2: Pain killers are the biggest deception and simply tell your brain to ignore the pain. Avoid them as much as possible and prevent yourself from doing permanent damage to your back!!

“How To Use Your Very Own Back Pain Removal System!”

Secret #3: Know that your body is equipped with a built in “back pain removal system” for you to use anytime! The human body is designed with intelligence beyond any human description! Just one molecule of DNA has more information stored in it than tens of thousands of computers! Your body has main built in functions and repair systems that automatically operate anytime something goes wrong.

One built in system is actually a warning system…it’s called “pain”!! You know much about that. Right now you may be sitting at your computer reading this with pain in your back. If so, you’ll be glad you’ve spent these few minutes reading this report because in a minute, I’m going to give you a simple solution to take the first step in relieving your back pain.

First, let’s talk about “pain”. Without “pain” we would destroy ourselves. Without pain telling you your back hurts, you would have destroyed your back ten times over by now!

“Pain” tells us when to stop. It’s a natural function of our body. Another natural function of our body is healing. We see this when we have a simple paper cut. Our body goes through several healing stages, it scabs up, and eventually goes away. Your spinal and nervous system have the same capacity.

However, imagine if every time you saw your paper cut start to heal, you started to pick at it and open up the wound again? Obviously, it would never heal. The body’s natural systems wouldn’t have a chance to work!

The same with your back pain and healing IT. You need to allow your back to naturally heal itself through your built in back pain removal system! How? By first stopping re-cutting yourself and prolonging the healing process!

In order to do this, again, you must first discover the problem, fix the problem, and then you’ll be blown away at how your body may start to heal itself and as a result of this, you could start to become pain free!!

You must put your back into a position to heal itself by finding and zeroing in on the problem. This will give your built in back pain removal system an opportunity to work!

Secret #3: Use Your Built In “Back Pain Removal System” by first discovering the actual problem.

“Are You Making Your Back Pain Worse Without Even Realizing It?”

Secret #4: Know that back pain gets worse by lack of maintenance and poor physical health.

I know you don’t want to hear this now, especially when your back is aching. You’re saying, “Great, fix my back, eliminate the pain, and then I promise I’ll start doing the preventive maintenance!”

Preventive maintenance could be exercise, regular adjustments and living a healthier lifestyle. Remember, you can’t sink half of the ship! Do these things and stop the pain before it starts!

Secret #4: Regular body maintenance will prevent future back pain and existing back pain from getting worse.

Okay, now that you have all the secrets to relieving back pain, did you happen to notice the most important underlying secret or the most critical thing you must do in order to rid yourself of this nagging back pain and take your life back again?

In all the things you just read, what stood out as the number one thing you must do before you can ever expect to truly fix your back so it stops aching and interfering with your life?

Think now.

The number one thing you must do is……

….FIND OUT WHAT’S CAUSING THAT BACK PAIN!! YOUR BACK PAIN IS JUST A SYMPTOM, NOT THE PROBLEM!! (Sorry I had to yell there BUT it’s that important for you to realize!! You must find the problem). Everything I just told you is worthless to you unless you find and treat the problem, i.e., what’s causing your back pain, first, before you do anything else.

Don’t put this off. You must find out the true reason your back is in pain. If you don’t find out, you’re going to make things worse and continue to be in pain, maybe for the rest of your life. I’m going to give you a way to finally take the proper step.

“The Most Important Step You Can Take To Start Feeling Better!”

This, and for this reason only, is why this free report is so important. Why? Because right now, it’s that important for you to take some action in the right direction. You must discover why that back of yours is killing you, destroying your dreams andruining your quality of life.

You can find out quickly and easily by simply completing the form at the top of our web site. This will allow our team to send you a FREE Consultation immediately in your email. (Value up to $295!) Once you complete the form, you’ll instantly get a FREE Spinal Consultation.

If you decide to use it, we promise to do our best to detect, fix and possibly relieve your back pain, and like so many others, you may be able to start living pain free.

However, you have to act now. This free consultation opportunity may be gone within a few days. Obviously we can’t give away consultations for FREE for too long and still expect to have time to help all of our existing patients. So, don’t lose this opportunity, fill out the form below now.

Information without action is procrastination. You have the information, now take the action to find out what’s causing your back to ache.

Here’s what’s going to happen.

You’ll complete the form on our site.

We’ll send you instant information about a Free Back Pain Consultation

You decide if and when you want to come in

In some cases, your back will start to feel better, maybe even after your first visit!

The best thing, is that there’s a great chance that you’ll know what is causing your back to ache. Then, not only will you have a chance to target and fix the problem, but you’ll give your body a chance to start healing itself.

The best thing about what you’re about to do is to take the first step in relieving your pain! Some people don’t even get that far!!

Okay, here’s what you need to do right now:

First, stop thinking about the “ifs”. “If” surgery will work, or “if” you’re going to find a good doctor to solve your back pain or problem and forget about ever using pain killers!

This doesn’t find the problem. It “cuts” it away, causing more problems and possibly still leaving you with pain after all the costs and sacrifice.

Second, take action immediately by completing the FREE Consultation form below. We’re giving you a FREE ticket to a someone who knows how to identify your pain. You have nothing to lose.

Here’s what’s going to happen after you complete the form:

1. You’ll get an opportunity for a FREE Consultation to discover what the heck is causing the pain in your back (it will arrive instantly in your email).

2. When you come in, you’ll get a complete action plan for you to eliminate the back pain and prevent it from happening again in the future.

On the other hand, if you don’t complete the form, you’ll stay wondering when you’ll feel better, when the pain will go away, and maybe even make things worse for your back.

Once you get your instant Free Back Pain Elimination Consultation instantly in your email, just look it over. And then, when you decide to come in, you’ll have a FREE Consultation just sitting here waiting for you.

We look forward to seeing you soon and remember…never believe anyone when they tell you you’re stuck living with your back pain until you see us first. I can’t wait to see your face after our first visit!!

To your health,

Dr. Knowles

Unequal leg length tied to osteoporosis

Mon, 21 Feb 2011 13:18:25 MST

Reprinted from terry rondberg, dc Health Watch

Although chiropractors have often been ridiculed for using unequal leg lengths as a diagnostic tool, a recent research paper published in the Annals of Internal Medicine has linked arthritis in the knee to the common trait of having one leg that is longer than the other. Whether or not leg length differential is a direct cause of osteoarthritis isn’t clear, but the findings may allow people to take preventive measures even as early as childhood.

“Most pediatricians adopt a ‘wait and see’ attitude for children with limb misalignment when they’re growing,” said Derek Cooke, Queen’s University adjunct professor and a co-author of the study. “If we can spot factors creating changes in alignment early in bone development, theoretically we could stop or slow down the progression of osteoarthritis.”

The data was collected using x-ray images from more than 3,000 adults aged 50 to 79 who either had knee pain or risk factors for knee osteoarthritis as a part of the Multi Centre Osteoarthritis Study (MOST). Subjects were reassessed after a 30-month period and the researchers found that osteoarthritic changes in the knee were most significant in individuals with pronounced (more than 1 cm) leg length inequality, the shorter leg being most affected.

“Because the condition often goes undiagnosed, many people don’t realize they have a leg length differential until they’re diagnosed with osteoarthritis,” noted the Queen’s University press release on the study.

Evidence about the negative impact of unequal leg lengths has been available for decades but generally ignored or underestimated by the medical community, possibly because leg length checks were so closely associated with chiropractors.

According to a report by J. Philip Gofton, MD in a 1985 issue of the Journal of Rheumatology “Leg length inequality and low back pain go hand in hand.” His research found that a leg length difference of 12.5 mm will cause a lateral tilt of the sacrum of about 4° with a compensatory scoliosis in the lumbar spine. Gofton also demonstrated the biomechanical and clinical problem of leg length disparity and its relationship to hip osteoarthritis.

William F Harvey from Boston University, currently at Tufts Medical Center, was the lead author on the paper

Youth Antidepressant use on the rise

Tue, 15 Feb 2011 06:12:52 MST

The number of children diagnosed with depression has more than doubled --between 1995 and 2002. This according to an article in the Journal of Adolescent Health. Worse still, the use of antidepressants to treat the children has increased while the use of counseling has decreased.Between 1995 -1996, 1.44 million kids aged 7-17 visited a doctor for depression. That number more than doubled to 3.22 million by the end of 2002. As diagnosed adolescent depression increased, doctors started to prescribe antidepressant drugs more and more, while recommending mental health counseling less and less. These findings point to possible cases of inappropriate prescribing to children, since accepted guidelines call for children to be treated with mental health counseling or a combination of counseling and medication. This raises a red flag. If the goal of the medical community is to cure patients, why would medical doctors simply “medicate” the problem instead of work to “cure” the problem through mental health counseling?The answer is directly related to the increase in drug advertisements, perceptions that the drug is more effective than therapy and the fact that drugs are more convenient than counseling. How ironic, considering that last year the F.D.A. directed antidepressant manufacturers to include “black box” labels on their products that warn of the increased risk of suicidal behavior that has been noted in adolescents taking antidepressants.[Source: Journal of Adolescent Health, issue 12/05]

Life Improvements and Spontaneous Lifestyle Changes in a Patient Undergoing Subluxation Centered Care

Wed, 09 Feb 2011 23:21:44 MST

Case Study Quality of Life Improvements and Spontaneous Lifestyle Changes in a Patient Undergoing Subluxation-Centered Chiropractic Care: A Case Study Yannick Pauli, D.C. Bio [October 11, 2006, pg 1-15]

Purpose of study: This case study is to report the improvement in quality of life experienced by a patient undergoing subluxation-centered chiropractic care.

Clinical Features: A 36 year old male presented with primary health concerns of stress, eye pain and left leg pain of 14 years duration radiating to the foot and secondary complaints of gastritis, ulcers, nervousness, depression, lack of concentration and general loss of interest in daily life. The patient also smokes, does not exercise, eats a sub-optimal diet and rated his family and friends support, as well as job satisfaction as sufficient.

Intervention and Outcome: We discuss the various analyses employed to evaluate vertebral subluxations, including paraspinal surface electromyography and thermography. Adjustive care included a combination of Network Spinal Analysis, Torque Release Technique and diversified structural adjustments to correct vertebral subluxations over a six month period. We used visual analog scales, open-ended questions and selected items from the Self-Rated Health and Wellness Instrument to monitor health changes, as well as the positive improvements in quality of life as perceived by the patient himself.

Conclusion: This case study demonstrates that the correction of vertebral subluxations over an 11 month period was associated with significant improvements in the quality of life of the patient.

Key words: chiropractic care, vertebral subluxation, quality of- life, wellness, Network Spinal Analysis (NSA), Torque Release Technique (TRT)

Chiropractic with a Twist

Wed, 09 Feb 2011 08:10:41 MST

Chiropractic, with a Twist by Alyssa Giacobbe Published in Whole Living Body + Soul, A Martha Stewart Publication December 2008 Issue Read the original article online at Wholeliving.com Plagued by mysterious pain since high school, our writer finds relief in Network Spinal Analysis.

It was a week after I got my license. One wrong turn (me), one speeding car (the other guy), and bam -- I'd landed in the hospital with two hip fractures, a bruised kidney, and a broken pelvis. I was sentenced to crutches for five months and endured my high school years with the nickname Alyssa Andretti.

About a year later, I began experiencing a pain on the left side of my abdomen. It wasn't in my stomach, it was too high to have anything to do with my ovaries, and a battery of tests ruled out intestinal disorders. Having found nothing amiss, doctors concluded I was plain old constipated. "Eat more fiber," they said. And that was that.

Sixteen years later, the pain remained -- sometimes sharp, sometimes dull. I gave up trying to erase it long ago and instead learned to live with it. Back in high school, no one thought to consider that the discomfort might be related to my accident. But recently, I visited a naturopath who raised this possibility. So I began considering new ways to treat that old injury. On the advice of a friend, I ended up at the Newton, Massachusetts, office of Julie Burke, a chiropractor who has practiced a technique called network spinal analysis (NSA) for nearly two decades. Founded in the early 1980s by chiropractor Donald Epstein and used by more than 400 chiropractors across the United States, NSA employs precise, gentle adjustments (no heavy cracking) to reduce tension on the nerve tissues caused by both physical and mental stresses. Easing this tension allows the nervous system to function optimally and opens the "respiratory wave," the natural movement of the spinal bones that should occur with each breath. The resulting increase in energy and breathing capacity, say proponents, helps sustain all-around good health. While Epstein developed NSA for use by chiropractors, there's debate over whether it's a chiropractic method or a separate healing discipline. While traditional forms of chiropractic rely on standard manual adjustments, practitioners of NSA use a different technique. "A chiropractic degree is required to study and practice NSA, but NSA must be seen as a different discipline," says Robert Cooperstein, director of technique and research at Palmer College of Chiropractic. Different or not, I'd heard enough good reports that I was eager to give it a try.

Subtle but Powerful Having never been to a chiropractor of any kind, I had no idea what to expect from my first appointment. Before we began treatment, Burke used a computer-generated analysis to examine my posture and range of motion. The results were fascinating -- and alarming. In normal position, my shoulders and neck were pushed forward from spending many hours working on a computer. The resulting "interference" on the nervous system might be affecting my digestion, causing my abdominal discomfort. What's more, my back displayed early signs of osteoporosis. "But I'm only 31!" I said. "It's very common," Burke replied. "Few of us have perfect posture, and early signs of osteoporosis can begin in your late twenties." But as she explained it, just as having tires aligned on a car prevents wear, correcting posture imbalances now will help prevent long-term degeneration -- not to mention ease my immediate pain. After this assessment, Burke guided me to a cot, where I lay face down, fully clothed, as she pressed her hands to my spine and observed my breathing. Adjustments came every few minutes and felt like fingers snapping ever so gently along the surface of my back. At points, the change was profound: My breathing opened up, as if I could transport air from the lowest depths of my abdomen to the top of my head. This is the sort of change Burke looks for. "Once I see a patient start to breathe more freely," she says, "I know I'm on the right track." At the end of a session, which can last from 15 minutes to an hour, I felt revived. For the first month, I saw Burke two to three times a week. Most days I shared the room with other patients, standard in NSA. At first, I could feel the effects while in the office, but they seemed to fade when I returned to my everyday life. One morning after a major adjustment, however, I awoke to find my entire right side stiff; I called the office in a mild panic and was told it might indicate that my body had begun using muscles differently -- a good sign. I spent most of the day lying on my back, but when I got up later that day, I felt more energetic than I had in a long time. A month into treatment, a computer re-evaluation revealed that my alignment had improved drastically: My upper back was less rounded, and the curves in my lower back were closer to normal. Had I not seen these improvements with my own eyes, I might not be convinced. But the proof is there, and so is an ever-increasing awareness. I find I stand straighter, and though I still have a tendency to slouch, I'm more aware of how the slouching affects my breathing. Generally, I feel emotionally lighter -- happier, I guess -- and people notice. Best of all, bouts of my abdominal pain have dropped to a mere twice a week. And when the pain does show up at all, it's much less intense. "Hippocrates declared, 'Look to the spine for the cause of disease,' " Burke said. That guy was onto something. Alyssa Giacobbe is a writer for Boston Magazine

Network Spinal Analysis A research Perspective

Wed, 09 Feb 2011 07:41:37 MST

Network Spinal Analysis: A Research Perspective

By Dr. Donald Epstein

Reprinted from The Chiropractic Journal September 2000

NSA is a unique system for advancing spinal and neural integrity; developing new strategies of self-organization, and living life from the "inside out".

I am proud to report that studies of NSA patients' self reported changes span the largest range of health and wellness domains for a non-medical approach. Even more exciting is that this study performed through the University of California, Irvine College of Medicine indicates improvements in all areas surveyed. Strikingly, 76% of the 2,818 patient self-reported retrospective assessments show statistically significant improvement in their Physical, Emotional, Stress, and Life Enjoyment categories of health and wellness as well as their overall quality of life. Even in patients in care for more than 3 years, there appeared to be no ceiling to improvement.

Network Care is associated with significant improvement in self-rated perceptions of "wellness." Patients who have been under care the longest time reported the greatest improvement in wellness. This retrospective study reflects a large epidemiological group and could be a benchmark for future studies assessing health and wellness related outcomes among patients with a more holistic view of health.

The completed longitudinal study followed a population in care over a one year period. The data collected further validated the questionnaire used to measure wellness and quality of life, and gave us great insight into the strong changes patients achieve in Network Care.

It was found that patients continue in care long after symptoms reduce or disappear. They make healthier choices in their life and enjoyed life more. The study of people receiving Network Spinal Analysis demonstrated that people found reasons other than physical symptoms to continue in care. This was revealed by their improved wellness and quality of life indicators.

Network care is delivered to enhance improvement in the patient's passive, active, neural, and emotional sub-systems, advancing their spinal and neural integrity. Outcome assessment revealed predictable and reproducible development of new strategies of self-organization as one progressed through a series of Levels of Care.

Each Level of Care appears to be accompanied by an increase in self- awareness and self-responsibility by the patient for his spine, and nervous system, in relationship to his healing and life.

Rather than attempting to fix or control any problem, including nerve tension, pressure, stress, pain, fixation or subluxation, or to return a patient to a previous state, an NSA practitioner will seek to promote new properties within the nervous system and spinal tissues. These properties are believed to assist in advancing spinal and neural integrity, wellness, quality of life and self organization, allowing the expression of a greater degree of wellness.

Research demonstrates that even if a patient changes diet, exercise, meditates, and performs other health promoting practices, the wellness index questionnaire does not predict greater wellness, unless there is also a greater level of life enjoyment. This is paradigm shifting information. In my opinion, this supports the concept that an internal state of well being helps empower the educated choices we make, and that doing "the right things" does not necessarily produce wellness and health. Increased wellness helps our lifestyle choices to work for us.

The improvement in each of the domains of wellness almost doubled when NSA care was applied, as compared to when only constructive health/lifestyle changes were implemented.

You may have seen, experienced, or heard about the two types of natural body waves, one respiratory and one somatopsychic, that develop uniquely in Network Spinal Analysis care. These waves are believed to dissipate tension and re organize the functioning of the spine and nervous system. The awareness of the waves in patients is the most significant predictor of enhanced wellness on all levels measured.

The "somatopsychic wave" is a consistent, repeatable physiological phenomenon which can be studied as a non-linear mathematical model. This is of interest to other disciplines studying the dynamics of human function. At the University of Southern California, the NSA population is being studied to assess certain mathematical aspects of biological self-organization. Moreover, in a group of people expressing the "somatopsychic wave", it has been observed that movements of the larger spinal muscles exhibit synchrony, or "entrain" within the population.

Preliminary studies demonstrate that the organization of the surface EMG signal (recorded on patients possessing the strategy of the Somatopsychic wave) develops greater levels of complexity as the subjects progressed through subsequent Levels of Care. An exciting next step in research will be to characterize the mathematics of this wave in relation to each Level of Care. This would permit a correlation between each of the Levels of Care and such aspects of patient progress as enhanced self-organization.

I am actively supporting further clinical investigation. I believe it is essential to conduct ongoing research to further understand NSA's mode of action. This will advance our knowledge and improve the quality of service we can provide to the public.

I have clinically dedicated myself to furthering the knowledge of the biological links which will help us express a greater range of our humanity. I believe this will help us make healthier choices for ourselves, be to be a more compassionate, vital, creative, self aware, and responsible human culture. I believe that by optimizing the individual's biology, NSA will facilitate positive transformation on a global scale, changing the world a spine at a time.

Dr. Donald Epstein is the founder and developer of Network Spinal Analysis. He is the author of Healing Myths, Healing Magic, 12 Stages of Healing, and the Boomerang Principle. For more information on Dr. Epstein visit www.associationfornetworkcare.com or www.donaldepstein.com

6 Mistakes that keep you fat

Wed, 05 Jan 2011 14:13:26 MST

6 Mistakes That Keep You Fat

By: Lisa Jones from mens health magazine

We're not suggesting "The Situation" as a role model. But there is one hard-body lesson you can take from MTV's Jersey Shore loudmouth: The less body fat you carry, the better your abs will show.Start by performing triage on the six eating habits listed here. But don’t try to banish them all at once. "Target just one or two behaviors at first—ones that you can make the most difference by changing," says Jennifer McDaniel, R.D., of St. Louis University.The reason: Recent studies show that we have only so much willpower. That's why trying to break several bad habits at once can be overwhelming. But if you follow the slow and steady approach, you’ll increase your odds of sculpting a thinner, fitter physique—and keeping it for life.

Skipping Meals or Snacks

Not eating can mess with your body's ability to control your appetite. But it also destroys willpower, which is just as damaging. "Regulating yourself is a brain activity, and your brain runs on glucose," says Martin Ginis. If you skip breakfast or a healthy snack, your brain doesn't have the energy to say no to the inevitable chowfest.So skipping a feed helps turn us into gluttons at night. Your starving brain "just doesn't have the fuel it needs to keep you on track, monitoring your diet."Break it: This one's easy. Spread your calories out into three meals of about 500 calories each, and two snacks of 100 to 200 calories each, says Liz Applegate, Ph.D., director of sports nutrition at the University of California at Davis. Most men who are trying to lose weight still need at least 1,800 to 2,200 calories a day, says Applegate. More important, change your mindset, she says. Think I'm going to start a new routine, not I'm going to restrict myself. Restriction leads to overeating.

Speed-Eating

Use the nondiet approach: You're not denying yourself food, you're just eating it more slowly. Savoring it. Allowing your body some time so you don't keep eating when you're full.In an experiment published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 17 healthy men ate 11/4 cups of ice cream. They either scarfed it in 5 minutes or took half an hour to savor it. According to study author Alexander Kokkinos, M.D., Ph.D., levels of fullness-causing hormones (called PYY and GLP-1), which signal the brain to stop eating, were higher among the 30-minute men. In real life, the scarfers wouldn't feel as full and could be moving on to another course.Break it: Your body is trying to tell you something, so give it a chance. Slow down and enjoy your food, says Dr. Kokkinos. Put away the newspaper and turn off the TV. Try this breathing trick from The Yoga Body Diet: Inhale while counting slowly to five; exhale and count slowly to five; repeat three to five times before eating. A study in a 2009 issue of Journal of the American Dietetic Association shows that yoga increases mindful eating and results in less weight gain over time.

Pigging Out on Weekends

Weekend feasts can cause trouble beyond Sunday. In a recent study in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, researchers used rats to examine the effects of palmitic acid on leptin, a hormone that helps regulate appetite. Palmitic acid is found in saturated fat, an ingredient often featured in your favorite weekend grub."We found that within 3 days, the saturated fat blunts or blocks the ability of leptin to regulate food intake and body weight," says study author Deborah Clegg, Ph.D., of the University of Texas Southwestern medical center. So a Friday to Sunday of burgers, fries, and wings may prime your brain to overeat on Monday.Break it: You don't have to go cold turkey (though turkey on whole wheat is always smart). McDaniel suggests that your reward for a healthy week should be one cheat meal, not an entire weekend of them. After all, having an all-you-can-eat weekend is like eating poorly for nearly 30 percent of your week. That means you'd be eating well just 70 percent of the time. We call that a C minus. Do you really want below-average results?

Gorging on Salty Snacks

Sodium is insidious—it causes us to eat unconsciously. It adds up fast: popcorn at the movies, chips during the game, peanuts at the bar.Break it: Salt cravings go away after a couple of weeks on a reduced-salt diet, says Thomas Moore, M.D., an associate provost at Boston University medical center. Not many men can replace their favorite snacks with carrots or celery, but give them a try: The crunch may be what you crave. Otherwise, try small amounts of low-sodium chips and pretzels. As you're cooking a dish, skip the salt and, if you want, add just a dash at the table. "Salt added to the surface of a food item is far more noticeable than the same amount of salt cooked into a recipe," says Dr. Moore. A slow reduction of your salt habit pays off in fewer cravings, he says.

Drinking

Alcohol, that is. Here's an exercise to start tonight: Write down how much beer, wine, and other drinks you consume in a week. (Use that cocktail napkin.) You may surprise yourself. Calculate the calories and expect another surprise. A reasonable-sounding two beers a night can mean more than 2,000 calories a week—almost an extra day's worth. It can take more than 2 hours of running to burn that off . You call that a weight-loss plan? Besides the empty calories, booze undermines your willpower, says Dawn Jackson Blatner, R.D., spokeswoman for the American Dietetic Association. Which leads to impulse orders of, say, Buffalo wings.Break it: Try quitting—for just a week. Check your weight and how your pants fit. See if you can live on less. When you do drink, switch to lower-carb dry red wine (about 4 grams of carbohydrates compared with almost 13 in a regular beer) or low-carb beer.

Eating in Front of the TV, Then Dozing Off

It's a double whammy with a twist. You ingest calories while burning none, and sabotage your secret weight-loss weapon: sleep. Research confirms that people who eat in front of the tube consume more calories (nearly 300, in one study) than those who don't, and that the more TV they watch, the less active they are. And University of Chicago researchers found that people who lost 3 hours of sleep ate about 200 more calories the next day in snacks than those who slept 81/2 hours.Break it: Donald Hensrud, M.D., medical editor-in-chief of The Mayo Clinic Diet, says, "If you want to watch TV, be active at the same time or go work out and come back—then you can treat yourself with some TV." And make your DVR earn its keep so you can go to bed on a regular schedule. Sleep is a fine habit when done correctly

Several Nations Ban Flu Shots

Sat, 13 Nov 2010 08:06:50 MST

Several nations ban flu shots for kids

This summer, after one baby girl died, and more than 250 other children were hospitalized with convulsions and high fevers following their seasonal flu vaccine injections, Australian health banned the shot for all children under the age of five.

A short time later, Finland also suspended the H1N1 vaccines due to six reports of narcolepsy in children and teens immediately following vaccination. According to The Helsinki Times, "Medical reports suggest that over 750 of those who have been vaccinated have experienced harmful effects."

In Sweden, an investigation was launched after cases of post-vaccination narcolepsy appeared in children there as well.

"The vaccines appear to be causing a pattern of neurological disorders affecting children and teens across the planet," said a report in India's Bharat Chronicle.

A public outcry was raised after it was revealed that Australian officials apparently were aware of the problem for several weeks yet withheld the information and continued to encourage parents with infants, children, and teens to be vaccinated with H1N1.

Health officials at first tried to convince the public that there was no "causal" relationship between the vaccine and the side effects but even the Australian coroner had to admit he couldn't rule out that the flu shot was responsible for the death of two-year-old Brisbane toddler Ashley Jade Epapara.

Next, the blame was put on a "bad batch" of vaccines manufactured by Australia's biopharmaceutical company CSL under the name Fluvax. "This is not a long-term safety issue with vaccines," University of Western Australia School of Paediatrics and Child Health Associate Professor Peter Richmond told WAToday.

In the US, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) announced in August that "Afluria [the version of Fluvax approved by the FDA for use in North America] should not be used in children aged 6 months through 8 years."

Although health officials around the world were trying to calm parents by suggesting the reactions were relatively rare and not the effect of the vaccine itself (only of "rogue" batches), parents weren't reassured.

"My 6 children all got the flu shot on Tuesday the 21st of April. Within hours they were violently ill. Fevers above 39c, vomiting. We are now day three, they all have severe headaches, fevers, aches and pains and the runs. This is terrible, people have known about this for weeks. This is being played down by the health department. I would like to know if there will be any long turn health issues for my family. I am sure there are more than 22 children ill. Well I have six of them. I want answers," stated one woman in the WAToday comments section accompanying the article.

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Dr Knowles Comment

The efficacy of the flu shot has been in question for years. Now we are seeing that it is dangerous. Natural Immunity is what families need to go for. By strengthening our immune system we can most effectively avoid or minimize the flu and other common illnesses. Good food, good supplementation, avoid immune system killers and consistent chiropractic care!

Network Family Wellness Center Raises Funds For the Humane Society of Boulder

Sun, 07 Nov 2010 22:57:02 MST

Boulder Chiropractor Raises Funds for Humane Society ofBoulder

Network Family Wellness Center has always believed in the importance of giving back and supporting the community. This fall, Network Family Wellness Center sponsored a fundraiser for the Humane Societyof Boulder Valley. Not only was Network Family Wellness Center a proud sponsor of their event Causefor Paws, they raised $520 dollars for the local shelter. Network Family Wellness Center also extended an offer to local supporters of the shelter that they could receive a full chiropractic evaluation with a donation.Network Family Wellness Center is dedicated to personal and planetary healing through changing the world one spine at a time.

Why some of us look older or younger than we are

Sun, 07 Nov 2010 15:26:37 MST

+7/-7 Why Some of Us Look Younger(or Older) than We Are

Background

Although the skin care industry has made some significant progress toward the correction and prevention of the visible signs of aging, there are still many unknown factors regarding why we age—and why we all seem to age differently. The effects of the sun and the environment are fairly well understood and highly effective sunscreens exist to help us avoid the aggressive aging effects of ongoing exposure. Less understood are the biological or intrinsic processes that affect our appearance over time.

Recently, scientists at Purdue University in collaboration with Nu Skin Research and Development, have discovered a new and potentially significant internal source of aging—an enzyme called arNOX. Present on the surface of our cells, this enzyme is capable of generating skin damaging free radicals in the epidermis around the clock. Mostly inactive in our youth, activity levels of arNOX increase as we age and vary by individual.

To learn more about how a person’s arNOX activity levels might correlate to their real or perceived age, in 2006 Nu Skin collaborated on a research study with Purdue University and the Stanford School of Medicine. The results will be presented at the 25th International Federation of Societies of Cosmetic Chemists Congress to be held in Barcelona, Spain in October 2008

TO SEE THE FULL ARTICLE ON THE NUSKIN GALVONIC SPA CLECK HERE FOR THE PDF

Study Title

A Randomized Pilot Study of the Relationship between arNOX Levels and Appearance of Aging Skin

Participants : 25 females, ages 45-65

Methods

Using a VISIA complexion analysis machine, close-up images of the faces of twenty five women between 45 and 65 years of age were taken and analyzed. Assessments were made of key indicators of aging skin such as wrinkles, pore size, evenness of color, porphyrins, and UV spots.

A panel of independent clinical skin graders reviewed the close-up photographs taken by the VISIA and estimated each participant’s chronological age based on the condition of their skin. The professional panel estimated ages were averaged for each subject, and then compared to subject’s actual age.

The arNOX enzyme activity levels from each test subject were determined by drawing blood samples which were then processed and analyzed at Purdue University. Finally, researchers compared and correlated each participant’s professionally estimated chronological skin age and real age with the arNOX activity levels in the blood.

Results

According to preliminary data, a correlation exists between arNOX activity levels and errors in estimating participants’ chronological skin ages as estimated by professional graders. In other words, the apparent visible ages of those with higher arNOX activity levels were estimated to be an average of seven years older than their chronological age while the apparent visible ages of those individuals with lower arNOX activity levels were estimated to be an average of seven years younger than their chronological age. This suggests that low activity levels of arNOX may result in looking visibly younger—as we get chronologically older.

Validity of the Biophotonic Scanner

Sun, 07 Nov 2010 15:14:35 MST

The Validity of the Pharmanex BioPhotonic Scannerand a Review of The LiteratureLouis B. Cady, M.D., Founder and CEO – The Cady Wellness InstituteNewburgh, IN

The arrival of the BioPhotonic Scanner in the United States in 2003 was originally a “nonevent.”Very few people knew of it. In the space of the last three years, however, and withthe explosive growth of the parent company that introduced the scanner to the U.S. market,more and more people are becoming aware of the scanner and the products and companyattached to it.The scanner is cropping up in more and more holistic physicians’ offices, medical spas, andhealth and fitness facilities. More and more people are getting “scanned.” Clearly, there issomething novel and compelling about this technology. At the core, however, the questionremains: Is it valid? Does the measurement it obtains really “mean anything” in the hard lightof the peer-reviewed medical literature?A quick review of the important points relating to the BioPhotonic Scanner follows:- Pharmanex, a division of NuSkin, owns the patent rights to the BioPhotonic Scannerfor the next 19 years- The BioPhotonic Scanner, at this point in time, is the only method to obtain anyreasonable approximation of total body antioxidant status by a laser scan and readoutof a “skin carotenoid score.”- Simultaneously, Pharmanex is the only company that has a product guaranteed toperform in any specific manner: in their case, the guarantee is to raise the skincarotenoid score – something which is globally associated with improving antioxidantstatus.

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Omega 3s and Cancer

Sun, 07 Nov 2010 15:00:49 MST

How Fish Oil Can Treat & Prevent Cancer

Reprinted from www.mercola.com

Environmental factors, including those related to diet, are believed to contribute significantly to the cause of many forms of cancer. Dietary fat intake is among the most widely studied dietary risk factors for breast and prostate cancers.

In recent years, increasing attention has been paid to the intake of specific fats rather than total fat intake, and notable among these have been fish oils. Long-chain EPA and DHA, which are polyunsaturated omega-3 fats contained primarily in fatty fish, have been shown consistently to inhibit the proliferation of breast and prostate cancer cell lines in the test tube and to reduce the risk and progression of these tumors in animal experiments.

Regarding fish consumption, the concentrations of EPA and DHA in fish oil vary between fish species, with relatively high concentrations found in fatty species native to cold waters, such as salmon, mackerel, sardines, and herring, and relatively low concentrations in lean fish, such as sole, halibut, and cod. The interpretation of "total fish consumption" in epidemiologic studies can therefore be problematic, because the absolute and relative amounts of fatty acids reflected in this measure vary greatly among populations.

Many studies examined fish consumption in relation to breast and prostate cancer risk, although only a few accounted for the type of fish consumed or examined the intake of specific marine fatty acids. The studies also varied greatly with respect to important methodologic factors, such as sample size, adjustment for potentially confounding variables, the detail and quality of the dietary assessment, and the duration of follow-up.

In addition, epidemiologic studies to date have not examined intakes of specific fat in relation to endometrial and ovarian cancers. Clinical and experimental studies of these cancers also have been scarce.

How Fish Oil Prevents Cancer

Several mechanisms have been proposed by which the intake of marine fats may lower the risk of cancer. Among the most important of these is the inhibition of eicosanoid biosynthesis from arachidonic acid (AA; 20:4n-6), an omega-6 fat metabolized in the body from linoleic acid. Eicosanoids are a class of compounds derived from polyunsaturated acids and include prostaglandins, hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acids, and leukotrienes.

Prostaglandins are oxygenated, unsaturated cyclic fats that perform a variety of hormone-like actions. Those converted from AA by the cyclooxygenase-2 enzyme, notably prostaglandin E2 (PGE2), have been linked to carcinogenesis in several types of studies:

Animal experiments of mammary tumor development,

Studies of the proliferation of breast and prostate cancer cell lines in vitro, and

Human studies of fish oil intake, epithelial cell proliferation rates, and PGE2 biosynthesis.

Tumor cells typically produce large amounts of AA-derived PGE2, which may impede immune system function, possibly through its role in the generation of suppressor T cells. Fish oils inhibit cyclooxygenase-2 and the oxidative metabolism of AA to PGE2.

EPA and DHA also have been shown to inhibit lipoxygenase which metabolizes AA to hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acids and leukotrienes. Hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid has been linked to the suppression of apoptosis, the stimulation of angiogenesis, stimulation of tumor cell adhesion, and expression of the invasive phenotype.

Lipoxygenase inhibitors have also been discussed recently as a potentially important class of chemopreventive agents.

Eiocosanoids derived from AA also may be involved in other processes related to cancer progression, as well as cancer initiation. These include:

Alteration of tumor cell membranes

Modulation of oncogene expression

Formation of cytotoxic peroxidation products

Inhibition of mitosis

Promotion of insulin resistance

Modification of estrogen metabolism

Estrogen can be metabolized along 2 major pathways, to 16-{alpha}-hydroxyestrone or to 2-hydroxyestrone. 16-{alpha}-Hydroxyestrone is considered to be the more biologically active of the 2 estrogen metabolites and has been observed to increase mammary epithelial cell proliferation rates in experimental studies.

In contrast, 2-hydroxyestrone may decrease proliferation and has been associated in some, but not all, studies with reduced breast cancer risk. Thus, "Western" diets that are rich in linoleic acid may decrease the production ratio of 2-hydroxyestrone to 16-{alpha}-hydroxyestrone and thereby increase cancer risk.

Several studies focused specifically on DHA and its role in the development of breast and prostate cancers. For example, DHA may activate peroxisome-proliferator activated receptor-{gamma}, ligands of which have shown antiproliferative effects in vitro on prostate cancer cell lines. DHA also has been shown to improve the response of breast tumors to cytotoxic agents.

Differences in Fish Oil Consumption

Studies of fish oil consumption trends have shown inverse associations between per capita consumption of fish oil and the incidence of and mortality rates from prostate and breast cancer. Moreover, the shift toward a Western diet usually involves a concurrent decrease in omega-3 fat intake and increase in omega-6 fat intake, such as that observed in Japan over the past several decades (with a concurrent rise in breast cancer incidence).

Whereas the intakes of these two classes of fats were, for most of human history, similar in quantity (i.e., an intake ratio near unity), modern diets now heavily favor the intake of omega-6 fats. Indeed, the results of several human and animal studies suggest that reductions in breast cancer and PGE2 biosynthesis can best be achieved with a relatively high intake ratio of omega-3 to omega-6 fats.

Hence, the processes that ultimately modulate the concentration of tumor growth–enhancing eicosanoids may depend more on the relative concentrations of specific fatty acids in the diet than on their absolute concentrations.

The concentrations of EPA and DHA relative to those of other fats contained in fish vary between species, and relatively high concentrations are found in fatty fish, such as salmon, mackerel, sardines, and herring, species that are generally native to cold waters. Lean fish, which typically are native to warmer waters, tend to have lower concentrations of EPA and DHA and may sometimes have higher concentrations of AA.

For example, a 100-g serving of Pacific herring contains 1.0 g EPA and 0.7 g DHA (19). In contrast, a 100-g serving of haddock contains 0.1 g each of EPA and DHA. Thus, different types of fish may have different effects on processes related to cancer development.

Factors Complicating Proper Interpretation of Fish Oil Clinical Studies

For studies that examined only total fish consumption in relation to cancer risk, assumptions regarding the type of fish consumed (and, therefore, EPA and DHA intake) can be made from the per capita intake of fish oil. For example, total fish consumption in a Scandinavian population might reflect a greater intake of fatty fish than would the same total fish consumption in a population in the United States, because the per capita intake of omega-3 fats and the per capita intake ratio of omega-3 to omega-6 fats in Scandinavia are up to 5- and 10-fold, respectively, those in the United States.

Data from a few experimental studies suggest that the strength of the association with fish oils may be reduced in the presence of high antioxidant intake, because both the former and the latter inhibit the formation of AA-derived peroxidation products. This has been put forth as a potential reason for the largely negative results of studies in the United States, where supplementation with antioxidants is widespread.

However, this explanation is not entirely convincing because the formation of cytotoxic peroxidation products is only one of several mechanisms that may underlie the association between fish oils and cancer risk. Nevertheless, adjustment for dietary antioxidants in ecologic and analytic studies of omega-3 fatty acids to date has been infrequent.

Intake of fish oils also has been observed to inhibit the metastasis of human breast cancer cell lines growing as solid tumors in animal models. Hence, the association between fatty acids and cancer risk may be clarified further through the analysis of epidemiologic data that take into account various follow-up (or induction) periods, that are from studies with repeated assessment of diet during the follow-up period, and that provide information on cancer at various stages of growth and progression.

In conclusion, the development and progression of breast and prostate cancers appear to be affected by processes in which EPA and DHA play important roles.

Given the lack of studies that examined the intake or tissue concentrations of specific fish oils and the fact that most studies of fish consumption did not account for the type of fish consumed, there are still too few data from epidemiologic studies to evaluate the strength, consistency and dose response of the relation between fish oil intake and human cancer.

Although there is ample evidence from test tube and animal studies that these essential fats can inhibit the progression of tumors in various organs, particularly the breast and prostate, the evidence from epidemiologic studies is less clear. Although most of the studies did not shown an association between fish consumption or fish oil intake and the risk of hormone-related cancers, the results of the few studies from populations with a generally high intake of fish oils are encouraging.

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol. 77, No. 3, 532-543, March 2003

What the Experts Say About Antioxidants

Sun, 07 Nov 2010 14:32:39 MST

WHAT THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT ANTIOXIDANTS

“The amount of antioxidants that you maintain in your body is directly proportional to how long you will live.” - Richard Cutler M.D., Director Anti-Aging Research, National Institute of Health (NIH)

“There’s a revolution happening out there right now. People are bound and determined to take an active role in their health care. I have long refereed to antioxidants as the revolution that would change the face of modern medicine, but without a reliable convenient and painless method of measuring antioxidant levels, I was afraid that the revolution would die before it even got started. I am happy to report with the Antioxidant Laser Scanner the revolution is back on track!” - Dr. James Balch, author of the Antioxidant Revolution, and co-author of eight-million copy best seller Prescription for Nutritional Healing

“Scientists now believe that free radicals are causal factors in nearly every known disease, from heart disease to arthritis to cancer to cataracts. In fact, free radicals are a major culprit in the aging process itself. By controlling free radicals, antioxidants can make the difference between life and death, as well as influence how fast and how well we age.”- Lester Packer, Ph. D.- Head of the Packer labs at the University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Packer, author of The Antioxidant Miracle, is regarded as the world’s foremost antioxidant research scientist.

“Scientists’ understanding of the benefits of vitamins has rapidly advanced, and it now appears that people who get enough vitamins may be able to prevent such common chronic illnesses as cancer, heart disease and osteoporosis. All adults should take a multivitamin daily.” -Journal of American Medical Association, June 19, 2002

“Powerful antioxidants like lutein and xeaxanthin (from green vegetables) and lycopene (from tomatoes) may protect against coronary-artery disease, cataracts, macular degeneration and cancer.” - Time Magazine, October 20, 2003

“Antioxidants can cut your risk of heart disease up to 70%, diabetes 40%, lung cancer 30%, and breast cancer 20% studies show. Many leading authorities now urge all adults to take a daily supplement. USA Today, January 18th, 2004

Efficacy of Network Spinal Analysis

Sat, 30 Oct 2010 07:11:02 MDT

ResearchThe Epstein model of Spinal and Neural Integrity on top of which Network Spinal Analysis™ developed continues to be the focus of various disciplines in the academic community.The Retrospective study of almost 3,000 patients in Network offices in the USA, Australia, Canada and Puerto Rico demonstrated "within the boundaries of this study design, these findings provide substantial evidence that Network Care should be included among those practices with established health benefits." Through this study a new instrument which allows for the much desired patient self reported assessment of health was designed and gain initial validity.This questionnaire evaluated wellness through the patient's own experience of changes in the following categories: Improved Physical State, Improved Mental/Emotional State, Improved Response to Stress, Improved Life Enjoyment, and Improved Overall Quality of life.

Not only did Seventy-six percent of the patients studied report improved combined wellness changes in all categories assessed, but the longer the individuals were in care, the greater the level of improvement. After over 3 years of care, no limit or ceiling was found to the benefits. This is remarkable.Findings from the retrospective study showed that all measured characteristics of care exerted a pronounced impact on perceived improvements in wellness. Individuals who had experienced significant "life stress (change in job, etc..)" and trauma were more likely to report perceived improvements in wellness than those with less stress or trauma.Statistical analysis using multivariate regression has allowed the development of a "model" to analyze the influence of a number of factors on a given outcome. The influence of the variables on the outcome portion of the overall model is referred to as the R2. If only the variables considered account for all of the variance around a predicted outcome the R2 would be equal to 100%. Relative to the retrospective study, a number of factors were tested to find out the extent to which they influenced the outcome variable "wellness." When a patient reports a perceived change in their health a number of factors could be contributing to that change. A regression model tests what influence personality factors, social status factors, and other social conditions may have on a person’s perceived wellness. Through this process, it is possible to construct an overall model which shows what impact the actual care had on respondent’s perceived wellness independent of other demographic characteristics such as age, gender, income, lifestyle, and amount of stress due to change in life activities.Following this logic, the retrospective study showed that sociodemographic factors such as age, gender, education, and income contributed very little to explaining the large change in "wellness" experienced by respondents under Network Care. However, the indicators of potentially "stressful" life circumstances such as change in marital status, job, residence, etc., or experiences of past trauma collectively explained 16% of the variance in improved "wellness." This is interpreted to mean that patients reporting a significant change in life circumstances and past traumatic experiences report a greater perceived improvement in wellness. This further suggests that those who "needed" stress buffering the most (holding all other variables constant) had the highest perceived benefit from Network Care. Interestingly, when duration of care, awareness of the wave, awareness of change in breathing , and whether or not respondent’s expectations were met, were added to this regression model, explained variance rose from 16% to 24%, a 50% increase. This suggests that even when holding other variables such as external social factors and interpersonal factors constant, Network Care had an additional effect on the respondent’s perceived improvement in health and wellness.To understand the effect of lifestyle behaviors on present wellness, another regression model was constructed. This model showed that higher present wellness was predicted, (explaining 3% of the variance) by being younger, having a job, and being married. Moreover, when other variables such as having no ailments, reporting a higher emotional state score, and higher perceived prior wellness, the explained variability rose to 36%. When adding Network Care Characteristics; such as, time under care, awareness of the wave, awareness of breathing, and expectations met, the explained variance rose to 38%.Patients were also asked about health promoting changes in lifestyle practices such as exercise, relaxation, meditation, yoga, diet, vitamins, vegetarianism; and health risking lifestyles such as smoking, beef and caffeine consumption. However, when change in lifestyle was included in a regression model predicting a perceived improvement in wellness (before care minus present wellness), it accounted for only 5% of the variance. Future analysis will likely explain the dynamic between lifestyle habits, the use of NSA, and perceived wellness. That is, does using NSA lead to a change in lifestyles, and if so, do these lifestyle changes, rather than NSA, account for the improvement reported by patients?The Retrospective questionnaire is being utilized at the New Zealand Chiropractic Association School of Chiropractic, in Auckland. The Epstein model of spinal and neural integrity is part of the curricula at the school, as well as Network Spinal Analysis™ being taught as an elective at the school and practiced in their clinical program.Two chiropractic colleges in the USA have showed an interest in utilize this revolutionary patient self reported wellness assessment tool.A Longitudinal Study was performed, also at the Medical College of the University of California- Irvine, which tracked patients over time in care, with some patients still in care after one year. The questionnaire developed for the Retrospective study, was repeatedly completed. This study, soon to be submitted for publication appears to support the conclusion of the Retrospective study, further validating the questionnaire and the effectiveness of care. Interesting unique factors associated with care will be highlighted in this study.A study by Miller and Redmond (1998), evaluated changes in digital skin temperature, sEMG, and electrodermal activity in subjects receiving NSA. The NSA group demonstrated a significant decline in electrodermal activity and constancy of sEMG activity compared to controls, thus prompting the authors to proposed that a "sympathetic quieting effect" was in effect during the clinical application NSA. These authors also suggested that these findings were consistent with the self-reported improvements in mental/emotional state and stress reduction in patients receiving Network Care in the retrospective study.A recent study by Behrendt h reported a significant reduction in psoriasis in a male patient who had been under medical care for about eight years. While under concurrent NSA care, although at times undergoing personal stress which a known exacerbating factor in psoriasis, the patient maintained a decrease in body coverage to approximately 1.0% in the absence of methotrexate, a common immunosuppressant medication given to control psoriasis. Prior to NSA, he mistakenly withdrew from the medication, only to experience "flares" of up to 15% body coverage. The patient also reported other quality of life improvements. The author proposes that concurrent NSA care may have been helpful to this patient, possibly by positively affecting psychoneuroimmunological pathways.Dynamical Non-linear ModelThe actual neurophysiological processes which take place in patients under NSA care are under investigation. Two wave forms have been described to date. Specific changes have been reported by patients when expressing predominantly the "respiratory wave," while other benefits are reported during periods when patients are experiencing both the "respiratory wave," and the "somatopsychic wave™." The time periods under care when these waves are most likely to be experienced has been described and identified relative to the Levels of Care, or clinical application of NSA.It is visually apparent that a unique set of muscular contraction patterns are associated with the " somatopsychic wave™," Thus, this neurophysiological phenomenon initiated through the clinical application of NSA was chosen for investigation Observation of the "somatopsychic wave™" reveals that the muscular contraction patterns are unique to each individual, but the overall group of patterns exhibit characteristic movements that seem common to a wide range of individuals expressing the wave. It also has been observed that when a large group of people are expressing the "somatopsychic wave™" that some of the movements of the larger muscle groups exhibit synchrony within the population. Moreover, while certain muscle contraction patterns are characteristic of the process, it is not predictable as to when a given pattern will be expressed by a patient, or if the pattern will be expressed at all. Additionally, the individual patient can consciously arrest the "somatopsychic wave™" but not reproduce it consciously. This combination of characteristics led to the development of a research hypothesis that the neuromuscular process was not only non-linear, but dynamical (chaotic) as well.Current investigation has provided preliminary information in support of this hypothesis.That is, when surface electromyographic (sEMG) data was analyzed by non-linear mathematical algorithms, a non-linear attractor estimated to be of an order between 4 and 10 was predicted. Future study in this area will focus on confirming the suspected "chaotic" non-linearity of the "somatopsychic wave™," and depicting its respective attractor. If predictions hold true, the next step will be to differentiate the wave relative to Levels of Care to see if attractors specific to each Level of Care can be discerned. This would permit confirmation of patient progress as to their respective status relative to the Network Protocol. Patients have been sampled at different Levels of Care. Preliminary mathematics is promising in regards to a potential relationship between progression in NSA Levels of Care and organization state of the signal and therefore the nervous systemMilestone: The "somatopsychic wave™" represents a consistent, readily repeatable physiological model for non-linear mathematical modeling. This characteristic should be of interest to a wide range of disciplines interested in the dynamics of human function.A Functional MRI (brain scan without X-rays) in a pilot study of only one person suggested a extremely significant increase in brain efficiency via change in blood flow to the cerebral cortex (the thinking brain). This study was sufficient to have a grant awarded to a medical college for further study of the potential enhanced brain function in Network Care. It is hoped that this study will be expanded upon and will be performed at various international institutionsResearch PlannedA study of immunologic function associated with NSA care is currently being developed in conjunction with a Professor of immunology at the University of Auckland.Candace Pert, Ph.D., former chief of brain biochemistry at the Nation Institutes of Mental Health and currently Professor of Research at the department of Physiology and Biophysics, Georgetown University Medical Center is currently involved in developing a further research agenda studying monocyte selectivity for neuropeptide associated with various phases or states of spinal cord tension patterns proposed by Dr. Epstein. Dr. Pert and Dr. Epstein are entering into a cooperation for a theoretical paper bridging the Pert model of neuropeptide (chemicals of emotion) and membrane research with the Epstein model of spinal and neural integrity and model of the Emotional subsystem. It is being proposed that the alteration of membrane tension at the spinal level may be associated with a predisposition to certain neuropeptide binding at the cell membrane. It is further proposed that the Somatopsychic wave™ seen in Network Care is associated with a change in this peptide-membrane relationship as tension is liberated from the nervous system and tissues regain flexibility and compliance.NSA, through specific clinical methodology elicits an innate response, which through its apparent chaotic character can be surmised to involve inherent neurophysiological processes which are also chaotic in nature. This response appears to link the active, passive, neurological, and emotional subsystems, into a deterministic complex affecting spinal/neural integrity. The results of this process are reflected at the human perception level as improvements over a wide range of physical, mental, and emotional factors; all of which are believe to be components of health. These responses and expressions of improvement have been quantified as a wellness coefficient and measured through a non-medical health questionnaire format which has demonstrated a high level of internal and external validity.

Somato Respiratory Integration Exercises

Sat, 30 Oct 2010 07:08:54 MDT

Somato Respiratory Integration ExercisesTechniquesWritten by Donald Epstein, DCTAC, Volume 27, Issue 5

A patient calls in the middle of your weekend feeling great distress about their experience under your care; what do you tell them? You have a patient who seems to be so unresponsive to care, you feel lost. You are looking for your practice members to take more responsibility for their health, wellness and healing processes. If you have ever encountered any of these experiences, I am about to share with you something so powerful that it will absolutely transform your practice and patients.The single most important exercise a patient or practice member should do to feel greater safety in his/her body, and take the “charge” off symptoms, consists of turning the attention within. How do we get the patient to trust this innate healing ability enough when feeling stressed or in pain? How do we recognize and promote a greater self-responsibility in care?

We wear our stress response in our bodies as what I call “defense postures.” The structural distortion, tension patterns and subluxations are a testimony to, and physical anchor for, events that overwhelm our body-minds.Somato Respiratory Integration™ (SRI) exercises (based on my book, The 12 Stages of Healing) are designed to help the brain reconnect with the body and its experience. These exercises reconnect breathing with awareness of the body and its natural rhythms. They help the individual experience his/her body more fully, instantly shift the individual’s state of consciousness to one that supports trust for the body-mind and healing process, as well as promote increased peace and ease.These exercises appear to consistently reverse the process of defense physiology, spinal distortion and the disconnection that hinders the progression in chiropractic care. They can provide the acute patient with a tool to help dispel fear and encourage trust in the body or his/her experience of the body. The exercises can also be helpful to the practitioner in communicating the brain/body/emotion/stress connection.Introducing Somato Respiratory Integration™ Exercises: Stage OneThis exercise is recommended anytime an individual is overwhelmed by his body, experience or symptom, and also if he feels helpless, fearful of his body, is difficult to adjust, or just needs more internal connection and a greater degree of internal safety. When an area of the spine does not adjust easily, or has recurring defense patterns, this exercise can be performed as a means of developing connection in the region directly anterior to the spinal tension pattern. It can be magical in its result.Lie on your back or be seated. Touch your upper chest at the top of the ribs with both hands, palms facing downward, and breathe slowly and gently in through your nose and out through your mouth. Inhale just deeply enough to feel your breath meet the rhythm of your chest rising. Exhale just enough to feel the rhythm of your chest falling. Localize the area of motion and breath to just the zone under your hands. Do not allow other areas of the body to recruit motion. Repeat this process for a few respiration cycles. Now, do the same exercise with your hands placed at the bottom of your breastbone and breathe the same way. Then place your hands on your abdomen (near your navel) and repeat. Remember to breathe gently just into the area where your hands are placed.If this exercise is very difficult to do in one of these regions, move to a different region that feels more comfortable and at which you can focus the breath and movement with greater ease. Let the peace you experience there spread to the region where you felt discomfort. Once the individual has found the “connection” in peace and can focus the breath and motion into just that area, then the practice member can alternate between this area and the area of distress. When he holds the area of distress, he should attempt to get breath as close to that area of the body as possible and moan or make the sound of that area—the sound that area would want to make if it could speak. This technique requires the brain to hook up to the area again.After the sound is made in this area (no more than 30 seconds on this area of distress), have the practice member bring both hands back to the area of connection or peace of the SRI Stage One exercise. At this point have the practice member sigh or make a sound of peace, ease, or relief at this area. Alternate between the area of connection or peace and distress for a few minutes (usually up to 10 minutes). Notice if there is more comfort, or if the practice member has greater wellness, or if the sounds between both areas seem to merge.This is actually only the first of twelve exercises encompassed within the SRI exercises. Each of the exercises in a series of twelve represents a unique state of awareness and different somatic-respiratory rhythm. As an individual advances in his/her own healing journey, there are exercises to support that growth and development. For those seeking evolutionary strategies for the future of their practices, look no further; Somato Respiratory Integration™ exercises lie waiting to serve you.

Healing Myths Healing Magic

Sat, 30 Oct 2010 07:04:58 MDT

HEALING MYTHS, HEALING MAGIC

In this breakthrough book, Dr. Epstein divides the healing myths into four categories - Social, Biomedical, Religious and New Age. He exposes each myth individually, then suggests an alternative statement, or Healing Magic, to help us reclaim our body's natural ability to heal.

healing MYTHS, healing MAGIC BIOMEDICAL MYTHS

Biomedical Myth: Every disease or illness can be traced to a physical cause.

healing MAGIC: I surrender blaming a single cause for my symptoms, pain, or lack of health. I acknowledge all aspects of my life that may have inhibited or altered the expression of life energy within me. My symptoms and pain remind me of my need to participate more fully in the world. I celebrate and bless the free exchange of energy and information within my body-mind.

Biomedical Myth: Symptoms and disease are inconvenient "obstacles" that need to be controlled or eliminated.

healing MAGIC: My symptoms alert me that my body-mind needs more self-respect, compassion, and my focused attention. They may require that I spend quality time with myself, or even guide me to change my direction and choices in life. I patiently accept my symptoms as information, vibration, and pulsation, with a story to tell me about my life's journey.

Biomedical Myth: Healing means symptoms and disease disappear or come under control.

healing MAGIC: I accept myself unconditionally, with all my symptoms, conditions, and glorious imperfections. I am healing in spite of the imperfections that still appear in my body and my life. The healing power of my body-mind is more powerful than I ever imagined. As I heal, I experience my whole self, including my light and my shadows.

Biomedical Myth: If symptoms disappear shortly after treatment, the treatment is responsible.

healing MAGIC: My symptoms and distress guide me to heal. What worked for me at one point may no longer serve me today. What seemed to hurt me yesterday may be my current remedy. I honor my healing cycles and my participation in a greater plan. The power within me is part of a greater power. I am amazed at how it heals me, in spite of what I consider to be the cause or the cure.

Biomedical Myth: Healing means feeling better.

healing MAGIC: I celebrate the totality of my feelings. I celebrate the individual parts of me, and the individual feelings of those parts. I pay attention to my feelings, knowing that their meaning will become self-evident at the perfect time, in the most exquisite way. I celebrate the healing that occurs in a continuous cycle of pleasure, pain comfort, and discomfort.

Biomedical Myth: A person may be too far gone to heal.

healing MAGIC: My present situation is perfect for me. I can heal, regardless of my expected outcome. I hunger to better know the power that resides within me, and the love that I can express. I eagerly express the greatness that I am, and I share my love and greatness with others. I accept my life as a sacred journey that is guided by the power, wisdom, and strength of life itself.

Biomedical Myth: Healing is predictable in its course.

healing MAGIC: The information and energy within me is now becoming "whole" again. As I acknowledge the parts of myself that have been ignored, isolated, suppressed, or forgotten, new and surprising insights spontaneously emerge from within me. These lead me to make new choices, help me to transform my relationships, and establish new ones. I joyfully welcome the unexpected outcome of this "new" me.

Biomedical Myth: Healing takes time.

healing MAGIC: I am healing in this instant. I honor the healing that has already occurred, and I honor the healing that has yet to occur. Healing myself now is my gift to myself, to my family, and to my friends. Although my healing is instantaneous, it may take time before I fully experience the benefits.

Biomedical Myth: Healing often requires drastic measures.

healing MAGIC: I do not have to take drastic measures to heal. The energy that expresses itself as tension, pain, disease symptoms, or an unhappy, unfulfilled life is waiting for the opportunity to burst forth. I am ready to liberate this energy, to set it to work toward healing. I bless my symptoms, illness, and wounds because they are stepping-stones on my healing journey.

healing MYTHS, healing MAGIC SOCIAL MYTHS

Social Myth: Healing requires a trained professional or a highly educated specialist.

healing MAGIC: My healing is natural, spontaneous, and magical. I celebrate the innate wisdom and ability of my body to heal me. I nurture the magical healing power that is mine and mine alone, whether or not I receive the assistance of trained professionals.

Social Myth: Healing is not always available.

healing MAGIC: Healing is always available to me. The door is wide open for healing to occur in this instant and in the instants to follow. I may choose to be assisted by a health practitioner, or I can initiate the healing process by breathing more fully, touching my body, and allowing it to move freely and express what was formerly repressed. By doing so, my own healing rhythms are set free.

Social Myth: Healing is expensive.

healing MAGIC: The internal process that is mine alone is both priceless and free. Although I may pay for a professional to assist me in regaining my health, the process initiated by me, within me, and through me is absolutely free. I claim my freedom to heal and celebrate my own healing power.

Social Myth: Healing takes a lot of work and requires full commitment.

healing MAGIC: My healing is effortless and natural. My commitment to heal is a natural process requiring no work or special focus on my part. I am grateful for where I am in my healing process. I commit to my wholeness because it feels natural to do so.

Social Myth: Healing means becoming more balanced, comfortable, and in control of my experience.

healing MAGIC: I give thanks for the unexpected events that take me from my established course and bring new experiences, relationships, and healing. I take this moment to rejoice in the miracle of life. I trust the flow of life, wherever it takes me, and make room in my day to celebrate changes in my schedule and plans. I am nurtured by change, and embrace both chaos and order in my life.

Social Myth: Healing means understanding what went wrong, or who did what to me.

healing MAGIC: To heal, I don't need to understand what has happened in my life or why. I celebrate the miraculous interrelatedness of people, events, and circumstances. I allow myself to experience a new state of consciousness by expanding my chest with air, and placing my hands on my heart. As my body-mind heals, my awareness shifts, and old wounds dissolve into nothingness.

Social Myth: Someone else has to have healed from this disease before I can do it.

healing MAGIC: I am a powerful, creative, and evolving being. The power of life that creates and sustains me knows precisely how to heal me. I give my physiology permission to allow this power to flow through me and to heal me. It is okay for me to be the first to have healed in this way. My healing inspires countless others to trust the healing power within.

Social Myth: In healing, to be average is normal, and therefore desirable.

healing MAGIC: I have no need to be average or normal. I surrender the need to fit into the expectations of others at the expense of my own evolution. At times, upon claiming my wholeness, I may look, sound or "test" non-average. I joyfully celebrate my loss of normalcy, and claim my authenticity, sanity, and health.

Social Myth: Healing means liking my experiences and agreeing with the outcome.

healing MAGIC: I love and honor my body, even when I don't like my experience. When physical symptoms or pain arise, I pay attention and accept them without judgment. The messages of my body are perfectly timed for my healing. I listen to the rhythms and messages of my body, and attend to its needs with compassion.

Social Myth: Healing is a destination.

healing MAGIC: My healing is a lifelong journey into greater self-discovery and awareness. I reclaim my personal power, and appreciate my sacred body. I celebrate the power of life that attracts what I need to be whole in body, mind, and spirit. Today, I live my life gracefully receiving the feelings and awakenings of my ever-changing body-mind.

ENDORSEMENTS

"Epstein's book inspires us to trust the healing power within."

-Deepak Chopra, Author of The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success

"Donald Epstein, one of the most gifted healers of our time, has written a brilliant, lyrical book that goes to the heart of the true nature of health and disease. I highly recommend Healing Myths, Healing Magic to everyone - Healers and seekers of healing who desire comfort and wisdom in a time of enormous shifts in our understanding of what it means to be human."

-Candace B. Pert, Ph.D., Author of Molecules of Emotion: Why You Feel the Way You Feel

"A stunning, visionary book! Dr. Epstein awakens readers from a trance that often keeps healing from taking place. Tune up your mind and re-orchestrate your health with the many insights found in Healing Myths." -Don Campbell, Author of The Mozart Effect

A great gift for a loved one . . . or yourself! Available for purchase online at www.donaldepstein.com.

healing MYTHS, healing MAGIC NEW AGE MYTHS

New Age Myth: I am responsible for creating my reality.

healing MAGIC: I am not responsible for creating my external reality. I am responsible for my internal state of mind, emotion, and vibration. I am responsible for focusing my attention on my inner environment in relationship to my life circumstances. It is my gift to become aware of the state of tension, pain, or ease in my body-mind, and to accept my experiences- pleasant or unpleasant- with non-judgement and love.

New Age Myth: I must "open my heart" in order to heal.

healing MAGIC: I celebrate the participation of all physical, energetic, and spiritual centers of my body. I place my hands on each center, gently breathe into each area, and experience my body rising and falling in that region. My body resonates with love for every part of my body-mind, and broadcasts this energy through my being and into the world.

New Age Myth: Being highly evolved means no longer having negative emotions.

healing MAGIC: I evolve as I become aware of the different parts, energies, and relationships of my body-mind. I heal as all of my parts share their stories with one another without judgment. I transform as I experience the energy and tension that has been isolated and ignored. There is no such thing as a "negative" emotion; there is only information and energy that is now made available for me to heal.

New Age Myth: People who are "enlightened" do not experience disease.

healing MAGIC: I am becoming aware of my internal energies, rhythms, feelings, and thoughts. Greater joy and enlightenment are a bonus of this awareness. I regard my symptoms and disease as a gift with valuable lessons to share with me. Being present with, and accepting all of the gifts, is the path to enlightenment.

New Age Myth: Profound new awareness is necessary in order to heal.

healing MAGIC: Today I choose to eat the fruit of the Tree of Life. I open myself to healing first, knowing that new awareness will follow. Life is the source of all awareness that inspires and empowers me. I know that life itself is the greatest teacher, and for this I am grateful.

New Age Myth: Healing involves transcending my past traumas and negative experiences.

healing MAGIC: All my experiences and feelings have a story to share with me. I accept each story's wisdom, whether or not I enjoy the story. I heal by allowing myself to fully participate with the different vibrations, without needing to interpret them. All my experiences bear gifts for me, and I gratefully accept them.

New Age Myth: I must understand my feeling to heal.

healing MAGIC: My feeling, not my understanding of my feelings, allows me to heal. The feeling is the message I receive about myself. There are many types of feelings in different parts of me. I allow them to tell me what they want me to know. Through the energy and vibration of my feelings, I receive answers to my questions, inspired by my own ancient wisdom.

New Age Myth: One stage of healing is better than another.

healing MAGIC: Wherever I go, there I am. When I am attentive to where I am in the moment, I am magically carried to a new stage of my healing. Because I cannot resolve a situation from the same consciousness that created it, I embrace the stage of healing I am in, and maximize its gifts to me. When I am not in the stage I love, I love the stage I am in.

healing MYTHS, healing MAGIC RELIGIOUS MYTHS

Religious Myth: Heaven is only available after this life.

healing MAGIC: I accept the state of consciousness known as "heaven," while living here and now. I know that my body and my life are sacred here and now. I honor my body and joyfully declare the presence of the Divine as it joins my life here on Earth. Today, regardless of my circumstance or situation, I choose to experience heaven.

Religious Myth: Disease is a punishment for my sins.

healing MAGIC: My symptoms, disease, or circumstance are not punishment from God. They guide me to pay greater attention to the life force within me, so it can manifest with greater ease. I move forward in my healing, honoring myself and serving others. I rejoice in the fact that spring always follows winter, and give thanks for the healing that has brought me this realization.

Religious Myth: I must forgive in order to heal.

healing MAGIC: I am open to forgiveness for myself and for others whenever the timing is right for me. Today, I celebrate the forgiveness that has spontaneously sprung forth in my life, and I honor the healing that has already occurred. For those I have not yet forgiven, I trust that forgiveness will come as my body-mind heals.

Religious Myth: The self or ego is the cause of distress or disease.

healing MAGIC: I joyfully acknowledge both the inner "self," and the "me" I see in the mirror. I smile as I realize that little of what I thought was "me" is true about myself. I celebrate who and what I am, and who and what I am not. I reclaim my sense of "self," my identity, and renew my passion for healing by saying, "yes" to life.

Religious Myth: The days of prophecy are over; messages from the divine are not available to me.

healing MAGIC: God communicates with me in many ways. I receive divine messages through my dreams, intuition, and relationships with others. Divine messages may appear as sound, light, images, and emotion. In faith, I receive messages that are broadcast from the Divine. I rejoice in the communications I am given, and celebrate the gifts received through experiences that deviate from my usual patterns and routines.

Religious Myth: Uninhibited expressions of the human body are not a sacred as religious prayer.

healing MAGIC: I celebrate the union of body and spirit. Through movement, breath, and the compassionate touching of my body, I gain insight into myself. By sanctifying my body, I open the door to healing. I take time out from all my activities, preoccupations, or thoughts, to honor my body and to pray an ancient prayer to my Creators gift to me.

Religious Myth: Silence will heal me.

healing MAGIC: Nature helps me to heal, whether it is noisy or silent. I may prefer to retreat from noise and activity, or I may choose noise and activity to activate my healing. I am grateful for the many ways in which the power within me uses noise within the stillness, and the stillness within the noise to heal me. I can heal in any environment, because nothing exists outside of nature.

ENDORSEMENTS

"Epstein's book inspires us to trust the healing power within."

-Deepak Chopra, Author of The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success

-Candace B. Pert, Ph.D., Author of Molecules of Emotion: Why You Feel the Way You Feel

A great gift for a loved one . . . or yourself! Available for purchase online at www.donaldepstein.com.

The 12 Stages of Healing

Sat, 30 Oct 2010 07:02:43 MDT

12 Stages of Healing "If you can’t be in the Stage you love . . . Love the Stage you’re in!"

Each stage of the healing process has it’s own rhythm. No one stage is "better" than another.

Each stage represents one of the 12 rhythms of consciousness shared by all humanity. Be with the stage you are in. Don’t resist the stage, honor it. The stage will come to completion as you’ve gained the information within its rhythm.

Although, many people never fully experience most of these stages, spending the majority of their lives within the first few, those receiving Network care consistently move through the stages much more rapidly.

Your breath and movements guide you through each of the 12 Stages of Healing. Go with the flow. Regardless of the stage you are in, breathe, move your body, and let your hands move in any way or to any place your rhythms take them. Even your distress has a “story” to tell. Let your PEACE teach your distress to HEAL.

The 12 Stages of Healing by Donald Epstein, D.C.

1. Suffering: Different from pain, suffering is marked by a profound awareness that something is wrong. Parts of our being are disconnected. The awareness of this disconnection is usually made as we draw more upon our consciousness and energetic resources. This especially occurs when confronted by a traumatic or chaotic event or loss. The lesson of this stage is the acceptance that nothing works at this time, and that you are presently helpless.

2. Polarities and Rhythms: This stage begins with the search for the magical genie that can or has been identified as the savior from distress, pain, or crisis. We project from the alienated, isolated, traumatized, hurt, shamed or ignored aspects of our being. These parts try to gain power over our helplessness through external authorities, procedures, treatments, etc. As we heal, we eventually discover that what we blamed or projected as being so wrong is not so bad. Or we see that our genie is not so magical. We begin to become aware of our rhythms and polarities and discover we are somehow involved in a process, and are partially responsible for our distress.

3. Stuck in a Perspective: This stage of healing involves the recognition that our distress is associated with the fact that we have been stuck in a perspective. Our concepts and/or our physiology have been fixated. We do not yet know why we’ve been stuck, or what to do about it. We just need to be with the simple revelation that we’ve been stuck.

4. Reclaiming Our Power: This stage of healing is one in which we realize that the “script” determined by the above three stages is no longer desirable or no longer works. Initially, we are angry that we had lost our power, and are determined not to let it happen again. As we progress through this stage, we choose to no longer dishonor ourselves, because we deserve more.

5. Merging with the Illusion: This stage is associated with having a strong enough sense of self to turn back onto our own alienated ”shadow” or “light” to heal the illusion and create more wholeness. At this major stage of healing we can appear on the other side of our illusionary self.

6. Preparation for Resolution: The alienated, traumatized, denied or redirected consciousness or energy is moving towards being prepared for discharge and resolution. We feel the tensions building within ourselves as this process advances. We find ways to create change and develop the flexibility to continue the process.

7. Resolution: Discharge of bio-electric energy is associated with a discharge of mechanical energy. This may be discharge of the muscular system, such as movement of the trunk or extremities. Processes such as fever, coughing, sneezing, or vomiting are common forms of discharge. Crying screaming and laughing are also discharge phenomena. When the discharge occurs after the previous six stages, resolution can occur with the discharge. When a sense of accomplishment, peace and inner strength accompanies the process, then resolution has been achieved.

8. Emptiness in Connectedness: After the discharge we are emptied. Rather than a space of nothingness, we find ourselves in a place of possibilities. We enter into a state of gratitude, vulnerability, connection with our external rhythms, and alignment with events around us. We welcome serendipity as a natural way of life.

9. Light Behind The Form: From our place of emptiness and gratitude we can truly appreciate our energetic fullness. We experience that we are more than our physical body, actually become aware of the flow of the life force, through us. We more fully experience our connection to others.

10. Ascent: We experience our union with the creative force of the universe. We transcend all limits, boundaries, language, judgments, and our existing sense of self. We gain the wisdom of knowing the oneness of all of creation during this stage.

11. Descent: We are renewed beyond our limits and sense of self and enter into the world again. We know that we are part of all we perceive and responsible for all that we know. We live without being attached to our situations. We love and serve.

12. Community: We experience our involvement with humanity and recognize that wholeness comes from bringing our individual gifts into community. This occurs in our internal and external communities. We receive gifts from within ourselves and from others. We recognize that all our choices are spiritual ones and affect all beings. Eventually we recognize that our limits stem from our own lack of wholeness. Consequently, we seek to re-experience the rhythm of stage one.

Network Spinal Analysis from Todays Chiropractic

Sat, 30 Oct 2010 07:01:13 MDT

By Donald Epstein, D.C. Network Spinal Analysis™ (NSA) is an evidenced-based approach to wellness and body awareness.1 Gentle precise force applications to the spine cue the brain to promote new wellness strategies. Two unique healing waves develop with this work. They are associated with spontaneous reorganization, redistribution and release of spinal tension.2 NSA is applied through a series of four levels of care. The application of NSA combines the practitioner’s clinical assessment of refinements in self-regulation of spinal cord tension patterns, unique “self-organizing” spinal sensory motor strategies within the recipient of care, with the patients’ self-assessments of personal wellness and changes in life style. Greater awareness of “self” and conscious awakening of the relationships between the body, mind, emotion and expression of the human spirit are realized through NSA care. Doctors of chiropractic also use NSA as an application for the identification and self-regulation of vertebral subluxation patterns, spinal tension and autonomic defense posture and accompanying osseous structural changes. NSA is currently taught exclusively to chiropractors and chiropractic students, and is presented in relationship to chiropractic practice and subluxation-based care. Practitioners are taught to implement NSA in their practices consistent with the guidelines established by the Council on Chiropractic Practice (and the cannon of ethics of the Association for Network Care). The Epstein models are soon to be offered through the curriculum of a certificate program of Wellness Education and Outcomes Assessment offered by Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. The Epstein models upon which NSA is based are as follows:

1. The Epstein Model of Somatic Awareness: Cognitive awareness of body structures, including the spine, is an essential component of healing and wellness. Cognitive somatic and spinal awareness, with the ability to verbalize the experience, suggests utilization of higher cortical centers. The inability to perceive, process and verbalize body sensations, emotions, and tension patterns limits the range of one’s adaptive responses. This promotes the body-mind disconnection that can create and sustain spinal distortions and vertebral subluxation. Care is taken to establish and refine capacities, strategies and pathways that promote and nurture a wider range of auto-regulatory and self-empowering responses and choices. It is proposed that the body cannot self regulate adaptation to a situation if the neural pathways that promote observation of the area and choice in response are inhibited.

2. The Epstein Model of Spinal and Neural Integrity: Panjabi3 and Epstein4 have proposed stability sub-systems that regulate the dynamic state of spinal and neural integrity. These proposed systems must be able to rapidly share energy and information with one another. Spinal and neural integrity as an expression of spinal and neural wellness is associated with instantaneous modifications of perception and adaptive responses to the changing environment. Clinical assessments are used to evaluate the body’s ability to establish and nurture mechanisms to reorganize the relationship between the subsystems and the environment. Passive Subsystem This system is composed of the vertebrae, ligaments and spinal discs. Palpation for compliance of these segments determines if tension is being stored within this system. If tension is present this suggests that the small inter-segmental muscles of the spine are acting in defense, as the individual is locked in protective physiology and lack of safety. The flexibility of the passive system can be enhanced, and tension released, through the NSA respiratory wave initiating rhythmic oscillations of the vertebral segments entrained with the mechanisms of breathing. This results in vertebral segments and neurologic afferent pathways offsetting defense physiology with pathways of safety and ease. In addition, active para-spinal muscle tension can build and then release tension through spontaneous stretching or motion of the musculature of the spine or extremities. When this occurs the vertebral segments move through a greater range of motion and tension is released. Moreover, a greater range of motion of vertebral segments and elimination of defense physiology is achieved. Active Subsystem This system is composed of the spinal muscles and tendons, especially the long muscles of the spine. Tension in the spinal long muscles is in relationship to adaptation to stress including emotional tension. The entrainment of spinal/respiratory movements that occur during NSA care can reset adaptive responses. Spontaneous movement through stretching, or through the somatopsychic wave5, may also redistribute tension and facilitation patterns within the musculature. Neural Control Subsystem This system is composed of the spinal cord, nerve roots and peripheral nerves. The attachment of the meninges to the vertebral segments is also included. The concept of Adverse Mechanical Cord Tension (AMCT), introduced by Alf Breig6, is associated with lengthening in flexion/extension or lateral bending of the cord. Relating to this concept, NSA considers five spinal cord tension patterns or “phases.” NSA care is evaluated according to these five phases. For example, heel tension, resistance to flexion/extension of the Achilles tendon is suggestive of adverse mechanical cord tension that is also believed to be indicative of a facilitated subluxation of a flexion/extension nature. Eversion stress, resistance of the Achilles tendon to lateral bending motion, is suggestive of AMCT/facilitated subluxation related to aberrations in lateral bending of the spine. Adverse mechanical cord tension is proposed to be associated with stress physiology and is believed to be expressed by the individual as a defense posture. It is suggested that the spinal cord tension patterns and attending vertebral subluxation(s) are the mechanisms through which the defense processes are retained in the body and disconnected from the brain’s reassessment of the adverse mechanical cord tension. It is proposed that the presence of AMCT and vertebral subluxation is associated with a loss of critical self-perception and self-regulatory processes due to dissociation of higher brain centers.

3. The Emotional Subsystem This subsystem is proposed to be associated with a range of motion (rhythmic oscillation) and tension within any tissue of the body, including the elements of the passive and active neural control subsystems. A relationship is suggested between range of motion of vertebral segments and emotions. That is, within the range of motion of spinal segments there is a corresponding range of expression of emotions through these segments. The emotional motor system (Holstedge)7 is reported to influence the sensory and motor gain (threshold of excitability) at every spinal level. The ability or inability to perceive, process and verbalize a body sense or emotion is believed to be linked to the emotional motor system. Although the chiropractor utilizing NSA does not assess the emotional subsystem directly, he/she considers its implication in spinal and neural integrity.

4. Wellness: The concepts of wellness and illness exist on a continuum. One’s position along the wellness-illness continuum represents the realm through which one experiences his body, circumstances, symptoms, sense of self, relationships and the world in general. Neither wellness nor illness exist in a direct relationship with pathology or lack thereof. Wellness-illness is a function of one’s internal experience, and not one’s circumstance. Therefore, an individual may exhibit various stages of pathology, remission or health regardless of where he/she is on the wellness-illness scale. Wellness and illness include domains such as: physical, mental and emotional state, and social well-being. They are based upon one’s subjective experience of self and one’s health beliefs. It is possible to objectify these domains through specific survey instruments that ask the individual to report their perceptions.

5. Vertebral Subluxation: Two classes of vertebral subluxations exist (described below), each having different etiology and responding to a different force application.8 The structural (Class A) subluxation is a segmental distortion associated with a compromise of the inter-vertebral structures within the foramen. This is most commonly produced by a localized physical trauma or is adaptive to spinal cord tension patterns. The facilitated (Class B) subluxation is associated with lack of recovery from emotional, mental or chemical stress and is believed to be associated with a state of adverse mechanical spinal cord tension. This clinical finding is believed to be a product of stress physiology and attendant stress posture, and is best addressed through a gentle touch at or in the vicinity of the vertebral/dural attachments in the cervical and sacral-coccygeal spine. Rather than viewing the vertebral subluxation as the single cause of ill health, it is instead viewed as an integral link in the process of body-mind disconnection and a physical consequence of defense physiology and postural changes. It is suggested that the brain can learn to recognize such distortions and develop mechanisms to self-regulate restoration to normal function. The spinal contacts applied in NSA are used to the brain to self-regulate to normal the mechanisms that produced and perpetuated the subluxation(s) while promoting new spinal and neural pathways and strategies of self organization to offset future episodes of vertebral subluxation.

6. The Spinal Gateway When vertebrae distort as a consequence of defense posture, at least one of the vertebral articulations is in relationship to the stress experienced at the time. Within the concept of NSA, a force is not applied to a segment that is a product of defense posture. That is, within the NSA phasing system, a segment that invites contact and is believed to be associated with a peaceful state is selected for contact. The “spinal gateway” is such an area. No force in NSA is applied to the region of tension, facilitation or fixation. Although an adjustment applied there may correct the vertebral distortion, it will not allow for rapid progression thought the NSA Levels of Care (see page 26 for details) and the emerging properties available with NSA. Within the method of Network Spinal Analysis™, I have introduced the concept of the “spinal gateway.”8 This is viewed as an interface between the dimensions of energy, consciousness and physical tissue. The spinal gateway serves as a nexus or hub for interaction between the sub systems that establish and maintain spinal and neural stability and integrity. Spinal gateways are located on, or adjacent to the spinal segments having physical vertebral-dural attachments. Application of a light force or touch to a spinal gateway assists the body-mind to shift from a dominant state of stress physiology (which is expressed as defense posture) to a state of greater adaptive self-assessment and organization. Precise and gentle touch contacts at these Spinal Gateways assist the brain to connect more effectively with the spine and body. As a consequence, the individual develops new strategies for living and healing. NSA continues to expand the application of wellness care and outcomes assessments for the chiropractic profession. This involves clinical application for the correction and self-regulation of vertebral subluxation(s). It also provides for the development of new sensory motor strategies to assist in spinal and neural integrity. As chiropractic, the care is in relationship to both the practitioner’s clinical health and spinal assessments and the patient or practice member’s self-assessment of their experience of advancements in spinal and neural integrity and wellness.

Research An active research program investigating various parameters of NSA was initiated nearly a decade ago and will continue into the future. Early on, a commitment was made to foster the research program through major universities using the expertise of senior researchers. Subsequently, the program has developed through study at the University of California in Irvine and the University of Southern California, and is commencing at Florida Atlantic University. Following standard protocol for the establishment of an evidence base for emerging methodologies, the program first involved publication of a descriptive paper representing the clinical approach. This was followed by a retrospective study to ascertain if anecdotal reports could be substantiated. Results of the retrospective study indicated statistically significant health and quality of life benefits reported by over 2,800 recipients of care. The outcomes of the study led to further refinement of Network Chiropractic to the levels of care now practiced in NSA. A longitudinal study investigating the benefits of care related to the refined approach has been completed and is awaiting final analysis prior to publication. However, preliminary results indicate similar benefits as reported through the retrospective study. An important spin-off of the retrospective study has been the establishment of a health and quality of life questionnaire that is oriented towards “well” populations as opposed to other questionnaires that focus primarily on sick populations. This questionnaire has application to all health-related disciplines, not just NSA. While a major thrust of NSA research is to investigate its clinical impact, research into other aspects of NSA is also necessary. The unique somatopsychic wave accompanying NSA care is intriguing. Study has been undertaken to ascertain the nature of this wave phenomenon by analyzing the surface electromyogrphic (sEMG) signals during the different levels of care. Study has thus far revealed a high level of predictability between signals received and the different levels of care. Results indicate that as recipients progress through the NSA levels of care, the associated somatopsychic wave increases in organization. Investigation into all aspects of NSA will continue as results, both anecdotal and evidence based, suggest a wide range of implications into areas as diverse as neurophysiology, psychothearpy, systems analysis of non-linear systems, behavioral modification and bioculturalism. As NSA continues to be investigated in these different arenas, the models underpinning NSA will certainly be enhanced. This is expected to provide a yet deeper understanding of the expression of the innate wisdom found within all living systems. 1. Epstein, D. The Theoretical Basis and Clinical Application of Network Spinal Analysis™ (2001, Longmont, Colorado, Innate Intelligence, Inc.) 2. Bohacek, S and Jonckheere, E: Chaotic Modeling in Network Spinal Analysis™: Nonlinear Canonical Correlation with Alternating Conditional Expectation (ACE): A Preliminary Report. Journal for Vertebral Subluxation Research 1998; 2 (4) 188-195 3. Panjabi M. The stabalizing system of the spine, Part I. function, dysfunction, adaptation, and enhancement. Journal of Spinal Disorders 1992; 5(4): 383-389. 4. Epstein, D. The Theoretical Basis and Clinical Application of Network Spinal Analysis™ (2001, Longmont, Colorado, Innate Intelligence, Inc.) 5. The somatopsychic wave is a spinal wave that develops unique to Network Care, and which is associated with a reduction of spinal tension, various spinal re-organizational states and patient reports of enhanced wellness. As care progresses, this wave undergoes visible refinement which can be mathematically mapped and has been the topic of academic studies and articles. 6. Breig A. Adverse Mechanical Tension in the Central Nervous System. (1978; Stockholm, Sweden: Almqvist & Wiksell Int.; New York: John Wiley & Sons) 39-41, 45, 96, 116, 121-123, 129-130, 155 7. Holstege G. The Emotional Motor System. European Journal of Morphology 1992; 30 (1): 67-69. 8. Epstein, D, Network Spinal Analysis™: A System of Health Care Delivery Within the Subluxation-Based Chiropractic Model Journal for Vertebral Subluxation Research 1996; 1 (1) 51-59 [Editor’s note: “Spinal Gateway” is a termed trademarked to Donald Epstein

Orchestrate Your Spine and Your Life

Sat, 30 Oct 2010 06:58:14 MDT

Orchestration of Your Spine,Your Nervous System and Your Life

by Donald Epstein, D.C.

After an hour of working in the garden, you try to straighten up, and find it difficult to do and a bit painful. But you know you are strong, work out regularly and consider yourself fit. You continue working anyway and attempt to dig out an old tree trunk. You do this while trying to work out your personal or professional problems in your mind. You silently hold your breath as you pull….. and an explosion of pain is set off in your back and body. Your spine twists to the side. You can’t stand straight, and can hardly negotiate walking.

Meanwhile a friend of yours who is receiving Network Care and Wellness Education is working in the garden next to you. She naturally moves her hips, sings, shake her shoulders and back, and stretches every few minutes. When she digs out another old tree trunk, she grunts and make sounds, next to you as she exerts herself. She breathes, hums and sings in the garden. She continues gardening for another two hours long after you have injured yourself. She may feel a bit sore from the exertion, but the gardening was good for her. You don’t think she is too fit, and she does not work out regularly. You are certainly stronger ?. What is the difference between both of you?

This literature will answer the following questions.

What could account for the difference in the health and functioning of the individuals in each of the above examples? What creates a healthy, flexible adaptable spine?

What are the elements that conspire to work with our spine and against our spine?

Why might one person injure his or her spine or nerves system communication network and recover within days or weeks, and another person having what appears to be the same degree of trauma have long lingering effects.

What is the relationship of Spinal Cord Tension to the health and functioning of the spine?

How can Network care and Wellness education help me develop the strategies to allow me to live more with the second , rather than be a victim of or fear the first scenario?

How can this information help me to understand my present state of spinal and neural stability and integrity?

How might life stress, my experience of my past, and my current perceptions influence my spine, its flexibility, health and healing?

How can this information help me to understand how NSA can specifically help me, my spine and my life?

How the Spine Works

Gardening, Sports, and even walking technically are complex acts. They result from many instruments, and instrument sections of the orchestra doing both their own jobs, and the orchestration of the entire composition into a magnificent performance which moves you. Each instrument section , such as the woodwind, the string, the brass, etc (called subsystems) must work together. Not unlike a computer NETWORK each section must exchanging information, energy, and modifying its present state, use the past as history, not as destiny, and plan for the most effective next step for the future.

What you were feeling, where your attention was placed, how you stretched and even the sounds you made and when are part of this complex orchestration of a healthy spine, body, mind, emotion and a life. With optimum utilization of your internal hardware and software, your information systems enable to help you be in the moment, adjust your behavior, energy utilization, posture, emotions, attitude and effectively carry on gardening in a state of wellness.

But what would happen if the parts did not signal you to modify your posture, to stretch, to breathe effectively, to hum or sing, focused your intention instead on a stressful situation? Would the gardening been so beneficial or would it have been a recipe for real problems… pain, spasm, and injury?

What are the elements that create that optimum state?

The parts must function properly and the orchestra leader (nervous system) must conduct effectively. All the parts [instruments] look to the conductor to know how to modify the way they play their instruments, the timing, when to play, when to pause, the amplitude (volume) and when to be still. This is an analogy or the role of what is referred to as the Neural Control Sub system.

The Neural Control Subsystem is composed of the Brain, Spinal Cord, the nerves exiting the Spinal Cord, and the Meninges. The Meninges are the tissues, which protect the nerves of the brain and spinal cord, and sleeves of meninges protect the nerves as they continue from between the vertebra. They. Through these layered structures flows Cerebral Spinal Fluid, which provide for nourishment and filtration of toxins and waste from the brain and nerves, and carries chemicals, which are informational substances. It is important to know that the meninges actually attach the brain inside the skull and suspend the spinal cord in the vertebral column.

When tension is released from the Neural control system it is common for both a Respiration and Somatopsychic (body-mind) muscular wave to be propagated through the spine, helping release tension, re-organizing the spine from its previous state, and sharing information and energy with the spine and nervous system.

The Neural Control system receives messages from the Passive subsystem (vertebra, ligaments and discs) and sends instructions to the Active subsystem (spinal muscles and tendons) in order to move in an energy efficient way to maintain stability and integrity.

The Neural control system is also in communication with the Emotional Subsystem which shares information about the tension, vibration, oscillation and emotional content of the various parts of the spine and body.

The more ease and less irritation, tension and “noise” can exist in the Neural control subsystem, the more efficient it can be at coordinating the other subsystems which create and sustain spinal and neural integrity, and wellness. The health and well being of the Neural control subsystem is essential in NSA care. It must give information in present time, not be tied up in old information and outworn or outdated information from the past in order to do its job effectively. It must have a way of releasing its tension and creating movements and behaviors which will keep it free of tension and interferences in optimum function.

Your spinal cord actually moves, as does everything in your body.

Not only does your heart move through its pumping, and your lungs expand and contract, but every organ and tissue of the body has a rhythmic motion or dance. When the tissues are free of tension, they dance and communicate with electrochemical, and vibrational song. They dance, not unlike the bumblebee inside the hive, which dances and hums, communicating in the dark to the other bee’s information about where the sweetest nectar is to be found. [bumblebee dancing in hive]

YOUR SPINAL CORD CAN MOVE 2 OE 3 INCHES UP AND DOWN INSIDE THE VERTEBRAL COLUMN

When we bend forward the spinal cord may actually move 2 or 3 inches, and the spinal cord slides back to a more relaxed position when we assume a more natural and neutral posture.

AND IT IS ATTACHED INSIDE THE VERTEBRAE

Where does the spinal cord attach to the Vertebral Column?

The spinal cord attaches to the vertebrae at the bottom of the skull, and in the neck.

Since the spinal cord ends at the first or second lumbar segment, a “cauda equine” or horses tail of nerves continues downward through the lumbar (low back) vertebrae into a thin filament of nerves into the sacrum (base bone) and the coccyx (tailbone).

[picture of spinal cord and caudae equine and filum and attachment points]

Spinal cord Tension

TENSION CREATED BY THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE SPINAL CORD AND THE VERTEBRAE THROUGH WHICH IT TRAVELS IS A MAJOR FACTOR WHICH IS OFTEN OVERLOOKED

........... “Tension is thus the pathologically significant force…Whether or not the tension leads to neurological deficit will depend on its magnitude and its duration of action.”

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The body perceiving stressful circumstances, which require a conscious or automatic unconscious reaction of defense, sustains spinal cord tension. Most people, in our modern world live most of their lives in this state

WHAT CAN BE THE RESULT OF SPINAL CORD TENSION

........... Excessive tension in the cord may produce measurable changes in motor [muscle activity], sensory[ sensation, pain] and autonomic[organ and body systems] function. These are accentuated whenever the cord is stretched, and may be reversed, and the symptoms relieved, if stretching can be eliminated and the affected tissues are kept relaxed.”

This means that the degree of muscle contraction/spasm, the degree of sensation (pain, or numbness) and function of the organs (heart, lungs, digestive, reproductive, urinary, hormonal systems, circulation, etc) are affected when the spinal cord is stretched.

In NSA Basic care we seek to help the spinal cord tension release so that there is the experience of a lessening of stretching of the spine, and greater spinal and body relaxation.

HOW IS THE SPINAL CORD TENSION CREATED AND SUSTAINED?

“At its cranial [top] extremity the spinal dura mater[meninges] is attached to the circumference of the foramen magnum [opening at the base of the occipital bone of the skull where the brain continues downward as the spinal cord], and at its caudal end it is anchored to the coccyx [tailbone] by the filum terminale [thin fibers attaching to the very bottom of the spine].

“When the trunk is fully flexed the dura [tough anchoring part of meninges] is under tension, as is also the cord, and stretching occurs. … by far the larger component of the tension is set up directly in the cord by virtue of its anchorage at its two extremities, namely the brain stem [at skull and neck] and the cauda equina [at lower spine]

“The magnitude of the tension in the cord depends firstly on the anatomical factor of body posture, which determines the relative lengths of the spinal canal and cord. “

The position of the head and neck in reference to the shoulders, and of the shoulders and hip to the spine are essential measurements of posture. When the head is positioned forward of the body and tipped to the side this causes a stretching of the spinal cord.

In Basic care we see to it that the brain can find the spinal cord tension and postural patterns and begin the process of connecting and releasing the tension. The brain and body through greater communication pathways and heightened efficiency in behavior can reassess posture and begin the process of self regulation of posture and the stress that we wear as “defense posture”

LACK OF SAFETY IN YOUR BODY AND IN LIFE CAUSES DEFENSE POSTURE WHICH “LOCKS IN” THE SPINAL CORD TENSION PATTERNS

Emotional and Mental Stress, or anything, which causes you to have to defend yourself, results in defense posture. This defense posture is associated with an elongation of the spinal cord, and a predisposition to looking outside oneself for references in life and limits one’s emotional range.

SPINAL CORD TENSION CAN BE RELIEVED

. ....................... “I have found that many neurological disorders in which no mechanical component has ever been suspected do in fact have their origin in tension in the nervous tissue ... By slackening the nervous tissue the tension is relieved and the conductivity and circulation are restored.”

NSA CARE ALLOWS YOU TO SELF REGULATE SPINAL CORD TENSION

In NSA Basic Care we focus on the body setting the spine into its own rhythmic motion which allows for a slackening of the spinal cord and nerves, as evidenced by a relaxation of the spinal tendons, and those of the extremities. We assess especially the tendons in the legs as an indirect measure of spinal cord tension. If you were to think of the spinal cord as a central cable and as the nerves as branches exiting along the way. And you then consider that these nerves are attached into the tissues of the body, including muscles. When the spinal cord is stretched, like a marionette puppet all the tissues and the tendons are placed under tension and stretched.

THERE ARE TWO DIRECTIONS OF SPINAL CORD TENSION, BOTH ARE ADDRESSED WITH NSA CARE

“The primary source of meningeal and neural tension is the lengthening of the spinal canal on forward and lateral flexion.

We assess the ankle tendon tension in the two directions that the spinal cord can be placed under tension, and that is flexion/extension (up/down) and lateral bending (side to side). Therefore your practitioner will assess for the relative tension at your ankle and the resistance to fluid motion in these two directions. This will provide indirect evidence of the degree of slacking of the spinal cord tension with each NSA entrainment contact. Information about this tension is categorized along with other findings and full spine palpation of the muscles, and vertebral tension and motion.

THE FIVE PHASES (PATTERN) OF SPINAL CORD TENSION

All spinal entrainment (Network adjustment) contacts are to help the brain better find the five basic spinal cord tension patterns, so that like a pull in a sweater, the fibers can be gently wiggled back to place, or like a trombone, the spinal cord need no longer be stuck within a specific range of its motion, but instead can slide up and down, back and forth allowing for a wider range of motion, emotion and adaptive strategies.

The total tension induced may well lead to neural dysfunction, and then the involved nerve-fibers in the cord or nerve-roots may be said to be over-stretched.

. The most significant consequence of over-stretching nerve-fibers is impairment of their conductivity.”

“The clinical implications of this principle are manifest particularly in cervical spinal cord disorders that have arisen as the result of acute or chronic damage to the tissue - ranging from sudden trauma to degenerative lesions.

WE ALL HAVE SPINAL CORD TENSION PATTERNS MODIFYING OR ADAPTABLITY, HEALTH, WELLNESS AND BEHAVIOR.

This may be any trauma from a difficult or “assisted” birth, to the

falls and impact of traumas in childhood, car accidents, or from

chronic spinal tension from anything, which produces defense posture.

The cervical part of the spinal canal normally undergoes greater changes of length during postural movements than do other regions, especially the thoracic.

Therefore any factor which will restrict the natural and effortless motion and flexibility of the cervical (neck) spine can have a significant impact on the movement of the spinal cord within the vertebral column, thereby establishing adverse spinal cord tension.

With NSA care, there are 5 Phases(PATTERNRS) and areas of intervention, four of these involve the neck spine in the vicinity of where the spinal cord attaches to the cervical (neck) vertebrae. The other involves the base of the spine, also a region of attachment of the continuation of the spinal cord.

In NSA care we seek to maximize the self regulated motion at each of these vertebral/spinal relationships, assisting in the release of tension, enhancement of motion, and the “working out” of impediments to full freedom in the neck and its relationship to the rest of the spine.

NECK TENSION IS AMPLIFIED AND TRANSMITTED TO THE LOWER SPINE

However, while tension is transmitted in both directions - to the brain stem and to the cauda equina - the pathological effects are manifested chiefly in the lower region.

This means that a small tension involving the cervical spine will have a larger and cumulative effect on the tension in the lower back. Although lower spinal tension will have an effect on creating neck tension, the influence of neck tension on the lower back is significantly higher.

CERVICAL TENSION PRODUCES 20-30 TIMES THE LOW BACK TENSION

To be precise, Dr. Brieg states that a neck lesion (problem) will produce 20 to 30 times the tension being redirected into the lower spine, than any direct pressure in the lower spine can cause itself.

Said differently, a spinal cord tension producing influence, such as a herniated disc, or an arthritic spur, or tumor in the lower spine will cause only 1/20 or 1/30 the tension in the lower back as a cervical spinal cord tension factor can produce.

WHEN IT FEELS YOU ARE BEING STRETCHED IN YOUR LIFE, YOU PROBABLY ARE.

Even when you feel life is squeezing you the effect is due to the difficulty with being stretched. The same is true of the nervous system communication Network.

…Even when the pathological lesion appears to be exerting an essentially compressive effect,[such as what is seen with a disc swelling or hernia ion, or an arthritic spur or tumor] the resulting deformation leads to a local increase in tension; it is the effects of this raised tension that appear to be of primary neurophysiological significance.”

Nerves and the spinal cord are more easily damaged by elongation or stretching than it is by squeezing. There has been a model in the medical profession that looks to nerve compression or squeezing in the area of symptoms as the cause or pain or disability. Their treatment plan is usually to separate the vertebrae to enlarge the functional opening from the nerve squeezed to transit.

Since nerve compression is not the cause, but rather nerve elongation, factors, which further stretch, or traction the nerves may actually contribute to further injury.

A way of thinking of this is when making a pizza. If you compress the dough, the effect is elongation into the shape of the pizza. Even when there is an actual compressive force, the effect is one of elongation.

Therefore in Network care we seek to help the body learn to self regulate spinal tension and elongation becoming aware of it before it reaches a level of pain. We also help develop strategies which allow for each of the regions in the vicinity of vertebal/spinal attachment points can serve as gateways for reassessment of tension, motion and integrity.

[picture of pizza man pressing down on the dough and an arrow showing elongation]

In Basic care we strive to help the brain be able to assess the tension and movement at each segmental level of the spinal cord. We help establish a new strategy that through naturally inspired movement and breathing along with the spine’s own rhythmic motion, you can learn to release the structural factors associated with spinal cord tension.

THROUGH CARE YOU WILL DEVELOP NEW SKILLS FOR SELF REGULATE AND REDUCE SPINAL TENSION AND MAINTINING GREATER SPINAL INTEGRITY AND WELLNESS.

You actually learn to move and breathe in ways that minimize tension, dissipate spinal and nerve tension and begin the strategy of spontaneous self correction and adjustment.

HARNESS YOUR TENSION, REDIRECT IT AND USE IT AS FUEL FOR SPINAL AND LIFE TRANSFORMATION

Later in Intermediate Care, you will learn to harness the tension, temporarily, and redirect it as fuel to gain greater motion of each of the segments which are associated with spinal cord motion. And you will learn to establish new motions and capacities to transform your old spinal tension patterns, local regions of defense posture, into fuel for spinal transformation and transformation in wellness. It is common to feel your spine and life re aligning in the course of your Network session and between sessions.

JUST AS YOU LEARNED TO ORCHESTRATE YOUR DEFNESES, AND PLACE YOUR HEALING ON HOLD,

YOU CAN LEARN TO ORCHESTRATE YOUR SPINE AND LIFE TOWARDS NEW POSSIBLITIES FOR WELLNESS.

We strive to help each of the instrument sections of the orchestra (subsystems) develop the habit of being effectively heard and have the music orchestrated by the brain and spinal cord. By keeping up to date on necessary energy expenditures and allowing information to flow effectively through the neural highway with second to second updates, unexpected stresses to the spine and body can be negotiated in the most energy efficient way. This can help speed healing, promote spinal and general wellness, spinal well being, help prevent injury and disability, and provide you with new resources to deal with the shock, bumps, traumas and stresses not only to your spine, but also to your life.

Allowing A higher Level oF Consciousness New Zealand Interview

Sat, 30 Oct 2010 06:48:05 MDT

NETWORK SPINAL ANALYSIS (NSA)

Allowing a Higher Level of Human Function

Interview with Dr. Donald Epstein - Jenny Thomas (InTouch Magazine)

Doctor Donald Epstein, founder of NSA visited New Zealand recently. InTouch was privileged to speak with him and this article is based on that conversation.

From time to time an extremely elegant and sublimely simple procedure or protocol will arise from an already existing, long established technique.

Network Spinal Analysis could be described in this way, arising as it did when in 1982, New York Chiropractor, Doctor Donald Epstein began “networking” various chiropractic techniques. Through meticulous observation and by comparing the findings and results of one method with another, he began to see the efficacy of marrying certain techniques in a manner which enables the practitioner, through the use of light touch to release large amounts of spinal tension from a patient. Although this might not sound very dramatic, it is a fact that the absolutely remarkable ‘life-changing’ ways in which patients respond to this method of care has become a hallmark of NSA. This unique approach to health is a synthesis of long standing chiropractic methods, quantum mechanics, neuroanatomy and neurophysiology while also acknowledging changing perspectives in health care. In Doctor Epstein’s case, these changes involve an expanded interpretation of the concept of ‘wellness’.

Dr Epstein: “Network Spinal Analysis sits within a new paradigm which I have been developing internationally and that’s called the Wellness Paradigm. Wellness is not about whether a person has disease. It’s about their internal experience of their body, the ability to make constructive healthy choices, and their ability to enjoy life and be well. Wellness is that state of concern in which you are relatively invincible, nothing can ruin your day, you feel alive, vital and confident and experience a high state of well-being. When you experience wellness, your circumstances of the moment do not easily upset your internal state.”

Findings from Network care have been documented in major University studies which examine the social science and bio-medical indicators of wellness by looking at a variety of different things people do to increase their health levels. A person who meditates daily, has buns of steel from exercise and the most expensive urine on the planet from supplements, and who has stopped doing the destructive things, will double their perceived wellness factor. However, if that person then adds Network Care, their wellness factor - their ability to make healthy life choices and stick to them - trebles!”

“What we are looking at here is an experience of life beyond the usual form. A more subtle engagement with the parts of the brain that allow a person to express their higher level of humanity and function occurs so that a greater capacity to express more connections of compassion and love arises. I call these ‘higher end social changes’, because there are spiritual connotations involved. The individual is different in the way they relate to others and their environment. They can be instrumental in helping create a more compassionately productive community.”

To understand the ‘mechanics’ of NSA, we must first remind ourselves that the spine is composed of bones sitting on top of each other with discs or pads in-between. These bones or vertebrae have holes like donuts in them. These holes create a spinal-canal for the spinal cord which extends from the base of the brain to the tail-bone. The central nervous system is comprised of the brain and the spinal cord and is supported by an intricate system of tissues called the meninges, that are filled with fluid which nourishes and protects the nervous system, all of which sits within the spinal canal, protected by the bony vertebrae. Connective tissue attaches this system to the top and bottom of the spine and this tissue is subject to stresses, tension and distortion.

We perceive our world through the nervous system. It is also through the nervous system that we coordinate the function of every cell, organ and tissue in the body. Every region of the body and every emotion is expressed through the nervous system. Also it’s the part of us with which we reason and which adapts us to stress and it’s the vehicle we use to create our conscious reality. So, when an event occurs that our brain decides is not safe for us to fully experience at that particular time, the energy and information of the event is translated into vibration and tension, which is then stored in the body. This tension begins to distort the spinal system: Spinal bones (the vertebrae) lose their normal alignment and muscles and ligaments strain and pull. Nerves can become compressed or stretched and irritated which results in abnormal function. As the nervous system is put under pressure, the spine is no longer able to right itself without outside help. Our body then ‘closes off’ the offending energy and tension, but over time, muscular tightness, spinal distortion, reduced breathing into the area occurs and consequently reduced movement results. Until it is safe to experience that energy again, and digest the information from the trauma, we cannot really feel whole or well.

Dr Epstein: “This is a very real thing - anyone who is at the crossroads of life, physically, emotionally or spiritually, or anyone who cannot get further than they were before needs Network care to help their brain to move from stress physiology which results in a person’s structure being fixed in defence posture. In fact most of us remain in defence mode throughout our lives and this can retard the higher, more evolved area of the brain from developing its unique properties and evolving new strategies for experiencing and responding to life. There are many people whose vertebrae, ligaments and tissues are locked into stress patterns, creating so much tension, that their focus in life is just getting through another day! Network care allows the brain to move from the stress physiology into safety.”

So how does the practitioner go about relieving this stress?

Dr Epstein: “I found that by using gentle and specific touches in a consistent sequence, where the spinal cord attaches to the spine, a patient’s own body learns to release complex patterns of tension and areas of disablement. Once this has been achieved, a further unwinding of deeper tensions from the spine occurs. These ‘touches’ consist of gentle finger or hand contacts applied at ‘spinal gateways’ or ‘access points’ along the neck and lower spine. They are applied in such a way as to engage the higher part of the brain, the frontal lobes of the cerebral cortex. This is the most recently developed region of our brain and is the area through which we observe ourselves and make choices regarding our behaviour. This is the area through which we can reach a higher level of humanity, one which embraces spirituality and evolution.”

During Network Spinal Analysis care, two ‘healing waves’ develop. One is a breathing wave which releases tension throughout the spine and body and relaxes a person. The other is called somatopsychic (or body-mind) wave, which is associated with undulation or movement of the spine.

Dr Epstein: “The mathematics of this wave are unique because it appears that this type of wave has not been reported anywhere else, so it has to be a signature in Network care. The theory being purported now suggests that as the individual progresses through levels of care, that wave, that signal along the spine is organising high levels of complexity. That means there’s more letters in the language - more words available and ultimately more information becomes accessible. There is an evolutionary aspect to this in that there is an increase in the ability of the system to self-organise so it can have more appropriate views about the environment and become more energy efficient. Thus an outcome is produced, that is significantly beneficial to the species and that was not there before”.

“What we are looking for in Network is for the system itself to reorganise and develop strategies for experiencing and releasing tension on its own. In the first level of care, which may last a few weeks, the person develops a strategy to connect the brain to the body more effectively and to develop a capacity for self-correction of the tension patterns. The care programme encourages the development of spontaneous stretching movements and breath movements which help release tension in the spine. In the second level of care, we are looking for the brain to be aware of the person’s tension, and actually temporarily amplify that tension and redirect it so that the tension actually becomes the fuel for further healing and transformation. Tension is what holds a person anchored in a position of non-safety. Lack of safety is the basis for all physiological stress and the way we accumulate this stress is directly associated with the way we experience our world.”

Dr Epstein: “I would like to see Network Spinal Analysis practitioners in places like cancer clinics and working with people who have had recent heart attacks; serious trauma patients and those who have had emotional traumas as children. I see Network Care not as competing with the existing medical paradigm, but instead offering a totally different approach that says no matter what you do about the disease, allow that person to be upgraded from say a 64k computer to a Pentium. Allow them to develop new strategies that they never had before and that person will make healthier choices. They will become more at peace and ease with their life and they will have a greater capacity to heal which often means the disease going away. And if the disease doesn’t go away, at least that person’s life is going to be richer than it was before. Network Care is an approach to wellness that embraces everyone. Babies, children, seniors. All can develop these strategies which allow a higher level of function.”

“A man who came to a talk I was giving, told me he had metastatic prostate cancer. He had had surgery and radiation treatments and the cancer had gone away but now it was back and spreading and he was very worried. I asked him what he was afraid of and if he was afriad of dying. He said, “No, I’m afraid of the way I have to die if I go for further chemotherapy and radiation.” It is upsetting that the treatment has to take away a person’s dignity which in my opinion can never heal. But I asked him what he would have to do differently if he was going to die. He said that he would have to get his affairs in order so I asked him what he meant by that. “Well,” he said, “I haven’t spoken to my son in twenty years and I never forgave my wife for dying.” And he went through a variety of things. I asked him why he would have to do these things. He said so that he could die in peace and I said, “Sir, this is a mistake, it’s so you can live in peace.” For some people, the only way they can make the changes which will enable them to live in peace is at the very end of their life.”

“And the point of this is - there are people who have cancer who never know it and who live full and perfectly wonderful lives. I know of one Network doctor I met at a seminar recently who told people that she is more alive, more compassionate and responsive with more feelings of gratitude than ever before. Six months previously, she had a breast removed, and for six weeks before that she had received chemotherapy. The other people who had had chemotherapy and surgery at the same time were not receiving Network care. Her internal state of wellness was so high irrespective of her circumstance, that she could be well and produce the physiology that would allow for a person to heal.”

Dr Epstein: “When someone comes to me for care, I do not have to know what it was that caused that person’s problem. What I do know, is how to intervene, to help their system to observe itself and to make a change. I have clinically dedicated myself to furthering the knowledge of the biological links which will help us express a greater range of our humanity. I believe that by optimising an individual’s biology, Network Spinal Analysis will facilitate positive transformation on a global scale, changing the world, a spine at a time.”

Tree of Life or Tree of Knowledge

Sat, 30 Oct 2010 06:32:10 MDT

Tree of Knowledge

Tree of Life

The Supreme Agency:

The conscious mind through the gaining of knowledge. The intellect can be used to solve every problem or challenge that might occur.

The Supreme Agency:

Life itself, through a fuller, richer experience of life. Life contains all the miracles and wisdom of the universe, and all solutions to every challenge that might ever occur.

How Success is Achieved:

By manipulation of the environment and others. Insulation of the individual from unwanted events, circumstances, and situations is vital.

How Success is Achieved:

By being sensitive to the timing and rhythms of nature, as well as the rhythms, pulsations, and vibrations of our body. Every step in life then becomes obvious, and requires little work other than to be awake and aware.

Relationships:

Valued for what they can offer us in achieving personal advancement or success.

Relationships:

Valued for expanding our participation in the world, for nurturing, and being nurtured by, the people and opportunities that come into our life.

Physical Symptoms:

Viewed as annoyances or interruptions in life, to be eliminated, controlled or avoided.

Physical Symptoms:

Viewed as gifts that have an important message to give us, and that guide us toward healing and a deeper experience of life.

Health:

The state in which the individual is not deterred from living a normal life. Achieving our personal goals without physical limitations or discomfort.

Health:

The state of optimal physical, emotional, mental, social, and spiritual well-being. Health is associated with gaining a deeper connection with the vibrations, pulsations, and rhythms of life through our body-mind.

Solutions Chosen:

Exclusive, competitive, and logical. More is better. The more complicated, the higher the educational degree, the more difficult to master, or the more sacrifice, money, or risk is involved, the greater the dividend or benefit. A greater result requires greater intellect or force.

Solutions Chosen:

Inclusive, noncompetitive, and illogical. Those that magically appear or become self evident at the time of need. Internal biological and spiritual forces guide the process, which may not always be logical. Solutions often include unexpected gifts that life presents us.

Avoidance:

Avoid the unexpected, chaotic, emotional, or spiritual unless prior planning allows it to be controlled.

Avoidance:

Avoid ideas, practices, and situations that do not seem to work in our life, including attitudes and actions that separate us from other people, or our body-mind and its feelings, rhythms, sensations. Avoid whatever detracts from our experience of wonder and awe for the power of life.

Dynamic Modeling in Network Spinal Analysis proposal 2002

Sat, 30 Oct 2010 06:19:09 MDT

Dynamic Modeling in Network Spinal Analysis:

Research Proposal for Spring 2002

E. Jonckheere

Department of Electrical Engineering

University of Southern California

Los Angeles, CA 900898-2563

Where do we stand at this juncture?

Here is a listing of what we have accomplished so far:

Early linear and nonlinear canonical correlation analyses of the sEMG signal. This confirmed that the wave has some deterministic features, that it is not a purely random signal (that it has some “organization”), and that it has some degree of nonlinearity.

Alternate Conditional Expectation (ACE) modeling of the sEMG signal. This provided a first mathematical model of the sEMG signal, again confirming the existence of some degree of deterministic nonlinearity in the wave.

Early statistical correlation between Akaike mutual information and level of cares. This could provide objective statistical confirmation of the level of cares, which has so far relied on the practitioner’s judgment.

Self-similarity analysis of the sEMG signal: this revealed that the signal has self-similarity up to a certain scale. While this is yet another confirmation of some nonlinear activity, it is however unclear at this stage whether the self-similarity (Hurst) parameter has anything to do with the level of cares.

Spatio-temporal analysis of the wave, that is, analysis of the wave as a function of two parameters: the position along the spine and the time. This confirmed that the wave is moving up and down the spine and more specifically that the wave reflects on the sacrum.

Auto-Regressive Moving Average (ARMA) and Generalized Auto-Regressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity (GARCH) modeling of the wave. This revealed that the sEMG signal is the concatenation of two significantly different dynamics—a “burst” dynamics and a “quiet, background” dynamics. The “burst” was initially thought to be just an area of accrued sEMG activity, an area of increased variance of the signal; however, our most recent analysis indicates that the phenomenon underlying the burst is much more than an increase in amplitude; it is a radically different dynamics from normal, background sEMG activity. This is probably the most specific feature of NSA.

Development of a variety of software: Linear and nonlinear canonical correlation analyses, Alternate Conditional Expectation modeling, correlation of the signals at different points along the spine, self-similarity analysis, ARMA/GARCH modeling, etc.

The most significant mathematical development in the year 2001—and probably up to now--has been item #6. From a purely mathematical standpoint, it provides an example of switching nonlinear dynamics. As far as relevance to NSA cares is concerned, it is the combination of item #3 and item #6 that is the most promising. Indeed, our earlier statistical correlation analysis of the Akaike mutual information versus the level of cares was not taking into consideration what particular part of the signal (burst of background) we had to look at to establish the level of cares. Now, we have at our disposal two parameters—the mutual information in the burst and the mutual information in the background signal. Clearly, the more parameters, the finer the classification

Where do we go from here?

As already said, the next immediate thrust of research effort will be devoted to the combination of items #3 and #6, that is, a classification of the levels of cares using the mutual information of both the burst and the background parts of the signal (as opposed to the mutual information of the burst only). Also, the ARMA modeling of the burst and background signals provides a wealth of auto-regressive and moving average coefficients, which could all be used to do a refined classification. We have already observed on the Colorado data that the auto-regressive coefficients appear consistent across Level 2 patients.

The next research item would be some kind of physiological confirmation of the signal. Our hunch at this stage—confirmed by Dr. Johansson from Lund University--is that the sEMG signal specific to NSA cares results from some nonlinear feedback in the sacral and/or neck area. Because of daura attachment to the bony structure in those areas, a rocking motion of the spine would pull spinal nerves, which in turn would amplify the rocking motion. To positively confirm this phenomenon, we will have to look more carefully at the sEMG signals generated in the sacral area—possibly putting all four sensors around the sacrum. Our preference for the sacral rather than neck area stems from the fact that in our spatio-temporal analysis we could much better establish a reflection of the wave at the sacrum than at the neck. Clearly, the reflection is a feedback action: when the nerve contraction reaches the sacral area, a pull is exercised on the spinal nerves via the daura attachment, itself generating nerve signals to send the contraction up.

Publication

A first publication in such a good journal as the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering is imminent, given our encouraging results on the burst versus background ARMA models of the sEMG signal. This finding could indeed be reported from an austere, purely mathematical standpoint, without having to go through the more controversial aspects of NSA cares. Once this paper will have been accepted, then using this first paper as back up, we will publish the more controversial aspects (e.g., statistical correlation between Akaike information and level of cares). In the meantime, we intend to report the burst versus background modeling at the Workshop on Nonlinear Systems coming up in April 2002.

Non Linear Modeling of the NSA Wave

Sat, 30 Oct 2010 06:17:20 MDT

Read about the conferencethat presents the our latest research paper on the non linear modeling of NSA Wave in various levels of care.

This prestigious conference is held under the auspices of American Automatic Control Council (AACC), the US National Member Organization of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), the ACC brings together people working in control, automation, and related areas from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), Association of Iron and Steel Engineers (AISE), American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the International Society for Measurement and Control (ISA), and the Society for Computer Simulation (SCS).The 2003 ACC will be held Wednesday through Friday, June 4-6, 2003 at the Adams Mark Hotel in Denver, Colorado. For more information about the conference: go to: http://acc2003.me.berkeley.edu/ The abstract of the Network article follows:

Dynamic modeling of spinal electromyographic activity during various conditions

E.A. Jonckheere and P. Lohsoonthorn Dept. of Electrical Engineering-Systems University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089-2563 R. Boone PRP Enterprises Auckland 1309, New Zealand The surface Electromyographic (sEMG) signals recorded along the spine during a rocking motion created by feedback coupling between the motion of the spine and the efferent nerve fibers at the dural attachment points are giving various linear dynamical models of the ARIMA type. The most significant dynamical phenomenon is the nonlinear switching among the various linear models. The switchings represent transitions among qualitatively different models of the motion of the spine, referred to as Levels 1,2,3. Statistical analysis reveals a definite relationship between the qualitatively assessed levels and the various quantitatively relevant models. Finally, it is shown that the higher levels of care, the more reliable the model, that is, the better the model is able to predict the motion as specified by the sEMG For more: http://eudoxus.usc.edu/CHAOS/chiro_revised.pdf

Chiropractic Research Review Of Literature

Fri, 29 Oct 2010 14:57:11 MDT

This is a compilation of chiropractic research of all types compilated by Dr Ted Koren.

The evidence for the health benefits of chiropractic are extremely well documented here.

KORENSPI.PDF

Within the document is a well organized table of contents by symptom and conditions.

Enjoy!

Dr. Knowles

Resolution of Childhood Nocturnal Enuresis Following Subluxation Based Chiropractic Care A Retrospective Case Report

Fri, 29 Oct 2010 14:51:05 MDT

Case Study Resolution of Childhood Nocturnal EnuresisFollowing Subluxation-BasedChiropractic Care: A Retrospective Case Report

Adam Rodnick, D.C.Bio &Paul Rodnick, D.C.Bio

Journal of Pediatric, Maternal & Family Health - Chiropractic ~ Volume 2010 ~ Issue4 ~Pages159 -162 Abstract

Objective: Case study of resolution of nocturnal enuresis following the introduction of subluxation based chiropractic care in a pediatric patient.

Clinical Features: An 11-year-old boy with a history of nocturnal enuresis and attention problems was determined to have subluxations noted during chiropractic examination.

Interventions and Outcomes: Contact-specific, high velocity, low-amplitude adjustments (Gonstead technique), as well as Activator instrument adjustments, were applied at sites of vertebral subluxations at the C2, C6, T1, T5, T12, L3, L5 and pelvic segments. The patient and mother reported a significant decrease in episodes of bedwetting and an improvement in his attention problems.

Conclusion: The chiropractic care of a patient presenting with nocturnal enuresis and attention problems is presented. There was significant decrease in episodes of bedwetting and a marked increase in attentiveness. This is one of few studies regarding chiropractic care and its effect on childhood bed wetting. More studies need to be performed in order to further explore chiropractic’s role in the management of enuresis.

Key Words: Chiropractic, pediatric, enuresis, ADHD, bedwetting, vertebral subluxation

Do Cortisone shots make things worse

Fri, 29 Oct 2010 13:59:11 MDT

Phys Ed: Do Cortisone Shots Actually Make Things Worse?

By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS

In the late 1940s, the steroid cortisone, an anti-inflammatory drug, was first synthesized and hailed as a landmark. It soon became a safe, reliable means to treat the pain and inflammation associated with sports injuries (as well as other conditions). Cortisone shots became one of the preferred treatments for overuse injuries of tendons, like tennis elbow or an aching Achilles, which had been notoriously resistant to treatment. The shots were quite effective, providing rapid relief of pain.

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Then came the earliest clinical trials, including one, published in 1954, that raised incipient doubts about cortisone’s powers. In that early experiment, more than half the patients who received a cortisone shot for tennis elbow or other tendon pain suffered a relapse of the injury within six months.

But that cautionary experiment and others didn’t slow the ascent of cortisone (also known as corticosteroids). It had such a magical, immediate effect against pain. Today cortisone shots remain a standard, much-requested treatment for tennis elbow and other tendon problems.

But a major new review article, published last Friday in The Lancet, should revive and intensify the doubts about cortisone’s efficacy. The review examined the results of nearly four dozen randomized trials, which enrolled thousands of people with tendon injuries, particularly tennis elbow, but also shoulder and Achilles-tendon pain. The reviewers determined that, for most of those who suffered from tennis elbow, cortisone injections did, as promised, bring fast and significant pain relief, compared with doing nothing or following a regimen of physical therapy. The pain relief could last for weeks.

But when the patients were re-examined at 6 and 12 months, the results were substantially different. Over all, people who received cortisone shots had a much lower rate of full recovery than those who did nothing or who underwent physical therapy. They also had a 63 percent higher risk of relapse than people who adopted the time-honored wait-and-see approach. The evidence for cortisone as a treatment for other aching tendons, like sore shoulders and Achilles-tendon pain, was slight and conflicting, the review found. But in terms of tennis elbow, the shots seemed to actually be counterproductive. As Bill Vicenzino, the chairman of sports physiotherapy at the University of Queensland in Australia and senior author of the review, said in an e-mail response to questions, “There is a tendency” among tennis-elbow sufferers “for the majority (70-90 percent) of those following a wait-and-see policy to get better” after six months to a year. But this is not the case for those getting cortisone shots, he wrote; they “tend to lag behind significantly at those time frames.” In other words, in some way, the cortisone shots impede full recovery, and compared with those adopting a wait-and-see policy, those getting the shots “are worse off.” Those people receiving multiple injections may be at particularly high risk for continuing damage. In one study that the researchers reviewed, “an average of four injections resulted in a 57 percent worse outcome when compared to one injection,” Dr. Vicenzino said.

Why cortisone shots should slow the healing of tennis elbow is a good question. An even better one, though, is why they help in the first place. For many years it was widely believed that tendon-overuse injuries were caused by inflammation, said Dr. Karim Khan, a professor at the School of Human Kinetics at the University of British Columbia and the co-author of a commentary in The Lancet accompanying the new review article. The injuries were, as a group, given the name tendinitis, since the suffix “-itis” means inflammation. Cortisone is an anti-inflammatory medication. Using it against an inflammation injury was logical.

But in the decades since, numerous studies have shown, persuasively, that these overuse injuries do not involve inflammation. When animal or human tissues from these types of injuries are examined, they do not contain the usual biochemical markers of inflammation. Instead, the injury seems to be degenerative. The fibers within the tendons fray. Today the injuries usually are referred to as tendinopathies, or diseased tendons.

Why then does a cortisone shot, an anti-inflammatory, work in the short term in noninflammatory injuries, providing undeniable if ephemeral pain relief? The injections seem to have “an effect on the neural receptors” involved in creating the pain in the sore tendon, Dr. Khan said. “They change the pain biology in the short term.” But, he said, cortisone shots do “not heal the structural damage” underlying the pain. Instead, they actually “impede the structural healing.”

Still, relief of pain might be a sufficient reason to champion the injections, if the pain “were severe,” Dr. Khan said. “But it’s not.” The pain associated with tendinopathies tends to fall somewhere around a 7 or so on a 10-point scale of pain. “It’s not insignificant, but it’s not kidney stones.”

So the question of whether cortisone shots still make sense as a treatment for tendinopathies, especially tennis elbow, depends, Dr. Khan said, on how you choose “to balance short-term pain relief versus the likelihood” of longer-term negative outcomes. In other words, is reducing soreness now worth an increased risk of delayed healing and possible relapse within the year?

Some people, including physicians, may decide that the answer remains yes. There will always be a longing for a magical pill, the quick fix, especially when the other widely accepted and studied alternatives for treating sore tendons are to do nothing or, more onerous to some people, to rigorously exercise the sore joint during physical therapy. But if he were to dispense advice based on his findings and that of his colleagues’ systematic review, Dr. Vicenzino said, he would suggest that athletes with tennis elbow (and possibly other tendinopathies) think not just once or twice about the wisdom of cortisone shots but “three or four times.”

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DR KNOWLES COMMENTS - This is the main comment in this article

cortisol shots are a short term fix that impede long term healing. there is no shortcut to taking care of your body, making healthy choices, getting great chiropractic care and eating right.

Healthy Sweets for Halloween Treats

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 21:37:22 MDT

As the Holidayseason gets started with halloween it is extremely important we help our children stay healthy. Refined sugars are detrimental to the immune system and make the body much more susceptible to disease. This increased sugar and decreased immune activity is a major contributor to increased incedence of flu's. Help our children stay healthy this Halloween by replacing candy with healthy treats. Below is a list of possible candy alternatives to hand out:

Sugar free gum

Vampire teeth

Halloween stickers

Party favor sunglasses

Small cans of playdoh

Noisemakers

Pencils with Halloween erasers

Halloween bouncy balls

Temporary tattoos

10. Small bottles of bubbles

11. Corn nuts, peanuts, or trail mix

12. Packages of sugar-free cocoa

13. Individual bags of roasted pumpkin seeds

14. Sunflower seeds

15. Pre-packed cheese and crackers

16. Spare change

Network Literature Review

Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:50:52 MDT

Summary of Research Articles on Network Spinal Analysis

This is a Review of the Literature on Network Spinal Analysis. The abstracts of these research articles represent a vast amount of study on the benefits of network spinal analysis as well as its efficacy NSA_Literature_Review_09-2010.pdf

Network Spinal Analysis Model of Chiropractic Care description from Journal of Vertebral Subluxation. Article describes the theoreticalbasis and clinical application of NetworkSpinal Analysis1197-0062_network_model.pdf

Network Spinal Analysis Study of 2,818 respondents for quality of life improvement. This the largest population retrospective assessment study of any health profession 1497-0041_retrospe.pdf

Image of MRI study of patient receiving network care 2198-cover_mri.pdf Cover: Functional Magnetic resonance Imaging (fMRI), which measures the relative presence of oxy-hemoglobin, has gained attention as a non-invasive medium through which high resolution images of the brain and other tissue may be acquired. This technology may provide a useful assessment of cortical changes following chiropractic intervention. Images of the patient depicted on the cover, on the left, reflect cortical activity (lighted areas in the parietal cortex, frontal cortex areas 9, 10; visual association areas 19, 37, and 39) associated with the learning process of a "novel" muscular maneuver of the foot. Images on the right reflect cortical activity following a Network Spinal Analysis (form of chiropractic) adjustment session, taken approximately 20 minutes after the first set of images, involving the same activity. The decrease in "lighted" areas before and after the adjustment session suggests that less cortical "planning" or "activity" is associated with the "novel" foot maneuver. Thus, the ability of fMRI to visualize changes in cortical activity may play a significant role in elucidating the consequences of vertebral subluxation correction on neurological function

Changes in Digital Skin Temperature, Surface Electromyography, and Electodermal Acitivity in subjects Receiving Network Spinal Analysis Care. 2198-0036_changes.pdf A study conducted to evaluate changes in a group of 20 subjects receiving NSA care. Study concluded a significant sympathetic quieting of thenerve system was a result of NSA care

Chaotic Modeling in Network Spinal Analysis. This is a prelimincary report of non'linear mathematics. This study begins to demonstrate that the somatopsychic wave if NSA is non linear as compared to random 2498-0022_chaotic.pdf

Reduction of psoriasis in a patient under Network Spinal Analysis care. Article outlines the reduction of patients Psoriasis in NSA care and discusses health care implications. 2498-0025_reduction.pdf

Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine article outlining the elemnts of the reorganizational healing model that Network Spinal Analysis draws on to create sustainable change acm.2009_reorg_healing.pdf

Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine articles discussing the link between wellness, health lifestyles and complementary and alternative medicine WellnessLifestylesI.pdfand WellnessLifestylesII.pdf

Lohsoont.pdf Dynamic modeling of spinal electromyographic activity during various conditions. University of Southern California study of the network wave with surface electromyograph technology.

abstractOct_19_2005_CPGpresentation.pdf Visualization of a stationary CPG revealing spinal wave.

acm.2009.pdf Journal of Alternative and Complimentary Medicine article on Reorganizational healing.

acm.2009_editor_letter.pdf Journal of Alternative and Complimentary medicine editor comments on Network Spinal Analysis

ANC_Research_Press_Release_04-1998.pdf

Original Press release on landmark study

acm.2009_reorg_healing.pdf Reorganizational Healing:A Paradigm for the Advancement of Wellness, Behavior Change, Holistic Practice, and Healing

Tri-fold_research_brochure_on_NSA1.pdf

Tri-fold_research_brochure_on_NSA2.pdf Research brochure outlining the results of the university of california irvine study

Reorganizational_Healing_Epstein_et_al_JACM_May_2009_low-res.pdf

Reorganizational_Healing_Blanks_editorial_JACM_May_2009_low-res.pdf

The Health Highway

Sun, 17 Oct 2010 23:14:27 MDT

Heading out on the health highway is one of the most important journeys for one to start on. It often starts with a single choice like I am going to exercise, or lose a few pounds, or go to the chiropractor.Sometimes taking this road is moving away from what we have seen in our own family.An uncle who has diabetes, or a parent with Alzheimer’s.We decide that we don't want to end our journey where they are and we choose a different road.Often this journey begins to move toward a state like fitness, happiness, or fitting into our skinny jeans.Regardless of the motivation the journey begins with one step that turns into more steps as we are successful.We build on our success of starting with eating healthy to adding exercise then cleaning up our diet more, avoiding sugar or dairy, moving from jogging to running a 5k to doing a half marathon.

These kinds of steps and so many more, are steps of growth along the health highway that mark our growth and increasing our wellbeing and quality of life. The health highway leads to us getting better with age instead of worse.

There is an important landmark on the health journey that I want you to pay attention for.It is the point where you realize that you can't do, eat or behave the way you used to. When you notice that if you eat 1 scoop of ice cream which you once ate a bowl of nightly you get sick or don't feel like yourself.

This point of the journey is what I call the health tightrope. Different than one getting sicker on their life’s journey, when one gets healthier the road narrows.As one's health increases it takes less to detour from the highway.The balancing act of maximizing your wellbeing becomes more demanding as you are more fine tuned.This is a point to celebrate rather than to see as a setback or frustration.

You see when you are unhealthy you can eat all the pizza, ice cream and soda you want and not necessarily notice it, for now.You will pay for it later in the form of heart disease, diabetes or cancer.Or lost vitality with your grand kids, or years of life lost.This inability to perceive the damage being done by a mismanaged lifestyle is a destructive survival value.

The person who is healthy and well connected to their body will have the constructive survival value of feeling bad (or getting ill) when they do things that aren't good for them.Someone who is unhealthy might say they have a stronger constitution while really the one who is sicker.Someone who exercises regularly and then misses a week may feel awful. The same goes for chiropractic care and your spine.When your nerve system if more fine tuned you only have to be slightly off to really notice it. Often practice members may come in thinking they are really off or have backslid when they aren't.They are just healthier; more fine tuned and have greater awareness of their body.

This holds true for every area of your quality of life. ... Your relationships, your spiritual health your finances and paying attention to your life choices. Ignorance may be bliss however it is not a path to excellence.When your health is concerned lack of body awareness and perception is a path to poor choices.Health people make healthy choices.You can drive a beat up old Ford on the health highway with bald tires, cracks in the seats and windows and rust on the body.And you may be perfectly blissful and content.However if you were driving a fine tuned Porsche and you noticed the wheels wobble at 70 mph you may be very irritated.Maybe more so than when you drove the old ford with all its problems.I would rather drive the Porsche and keep it in top shape.

As your health highway turns into a health tightrope embrace and celebrate your success. The dividends it will pay you in terms of quality of life and longevity are large.

Cancer is a modern man made disease caused by excesses of modern life

Fri, 15 Oct 2010 11:06:34 MDT

Cancer caused by modern man as it was virtually non-existent in ancient Cancer is a modern man-made disease caused by the excesses of modern life, a By Richard Alleyne, Science Correspondent Published: 4:39PM BST 14

Analysis of hundreds of Egyptian mummies shows cancer was extremely rare

Researchers looking at almost a thousand mummies from ancient Egypt and South

The findings suggest that it is modern lifestyles and pollution levels caused

The study showed the disease rate has risen dramatically since the Industrial Now it is hoped that it could lead to better understanding of the origins of “In industrialised societies, cancer is second only to cardiovascular disease "But in ancient times, it was extremely rare. There is nothing in the "Cancer appears to be a modern disease created by modern life."

To trace the origins of cancer, Prof David and colleague Professor Michael Despite tried and tested techniques of viewing rehydrated tissue under the Fossil evidence of cancer is also sparse, with scientific literature providing They did find examples of other modern day aged related diseases such as The mummified bodies from both rich and poor backgrounds showed that the Evidence of cancer in ancient Egyptian texts is also "tenuous", the The only diagnosis of cancer was a case in an unnamed mummy, an "ordinary" Modern records show that the disease rate has risen massively since the Prof Zimmerman said: “In an ancient society lacking surgical intervention, "The virtual absence of malignancies in mummies must be interpreted as Dr. Zimmerman dismissed arguments that tumours may have disintegrated over As the team moved through the ages, it was not until the 17th century that Scrotal cancer in chimney sweeps occurred in 1775, nasal cancer in snuff users Prof David said: “Where there are cases of cancer in ancient Egyptian remains, "They did heat their homes with fires, which gave off smoke, and temples “Yet again extensive ancient Egyptian data, along with other data from across Dr Rachel Thompson, of World Cancer Research Fund, said the research was "very "About one in three people in the UK will get cancer so it is fairly "Scientists now say a healthy diet, regular physical activity and But Jessica Harris, senior health information officer at Cancer Research UK, “It can be tempting to worry about our cancer risk from external things like

How to brand a disease and sell a cure

Wed, 13 Oct 2010 06:42:19 MDT world

new study suggests.

Oct 2010 Telegraph UK

America found only a handful suffered from cancer when now it accounts for nearly one in three deaths.

by industry that are the main cause of the disease and that it is not a naturally occurring condition.

Revolution, in particular childhood cancer – proving that the rise is not simply due to people living longer.

cancer and to new treatments for the disease which claims more than 150,000 lives a year in the UK alone.

as a cause of death," said Professor Rosalie David, a biomedical Egyptologist at the University of Manchester.

natural environment that can cause cancer. So it has to be a man-made disease, down to pollution and changes to our diet and lifestyle.

Zimmerman, looked for evidence of the disease in hundreds of mummified bodies dating back up to 3,000 years and also in fossils and ancient medical texts.

microscope they found that only five cases of tumours, most of which were benign.

a few dozen, mostly disputed, examples in animal and Neanderthal bones, the study in journal Nature Reviews Cancer reports.

hardening of the arteries and arthritis, which they said dismissed the argument that ancient humans did not live long enough to develop cancer.

average life expectancy ranged from 25 to 50, depending on their background.

researchers claimed, with cancer-like problems more likely to have been caused by leprosy or even varicose veins.

person who had lived around 200AD.

Industrial Revolution, in particular childhood cancer.

evidence of cancer should remain in all cases.

indicating their rarity in antiquity, indicating that cancer causing factors are limited to societies affected by modern industrialisation.”

time. His experimental studies indicated that if anything they are better preserved than normal tissues.

they found descriptions of breast and other cancers.

in 1761 and Hodgkin’s disease in 1832.

we are not sure what caused them.

burned incense, but sometimes illnesses are just thrown up.”

the millennia, has given modern society a clear message – cancer is man-made and something that we can and should address.”

interesting".

commonplace in the modern world.

maintaining a healthy weight can prevent about a third of the most common cancers so perhaps our ancestors’ lifestyle reduced their risk from cancer."

said it was wrong to suggest that cancer was purely man-made.

pollution and chemicals more than from things we can control, like our lifestyles," she said.

How to brand a disease -- and sell a cure

By Carl Elliott, Special to CNN October 11, 2010 2:07 p.m. EDT

(CNN) -- If you want to understand the way prescription drugs are marketed today, have a look at the 1928 book, "Propaganda," by Edward Bernays, the father of public relations in America.

For Bernays, the public relations business was less about selling things than about creating the conditions for things to sell themselves. When Bernays was working as a salesman for Mozart pianos, for example, he did not simply place advertisements for pianos in newspapers. That would have been too obvious.

Instead, Bernays persuaded reporters to write about a new trend: Sophisticated people were putting aside a special room in the home for playing music. Once a person had a music room, Bernays believed, he would naturally think of buying a piano. As Bernays wrote, "It will come to him as his own idea."

Just as Bernays sold pianos by selling the music room, pharmaceutical marketers now sell drugs by selling the diseases that they treat. The buzzword is "disease branding."

To brand a disease is to shape its public perception in order to make it more palatable to potential patients. Panic disorder, reflux disease, erectile dysfunction, restless legs syndrome, bipolar disorder, overactive bladder, ADHD, premenstrual dysphoric disorder, even clinical depression: All these conditions were once regarded as rare until a marketing campaign transformed the brand.

Once a branded disease has achieved a degree of cultural legitimacy, there is no need to convince anyone that a drug to treat it is necessary. It will come to him as his own idea.

Disease branding works especially well for two kinds of conditions. The first is the shameful condition that can be destigmatized. For instance, when Pharmacia launched Detrol in the late 1990s, the condition the drug treated was known to doctors as "urge incontinence." Patients called it "accidentally peeing in my pants" and were embarrassed to bring it up with their physicians.

Pharmacia fixed the problem by rebranding the condition as "overactive bladder." Whereas "incontinence" suggested weakness and was associated mainly with elderly women, the phrase "overactive bladder" evoked a supercharged organ frantically working overtime.

To qualify for a diagnosis of "overactive bladder," patients did not actually have to lose bladder control." They simply needed to go to the bathroom a lot.

The vice president of Pharmacia, Neil Wolf, explained the branding strategy in a 2002 presentation called "Positioning Detrol: Creating a Disease." By creating the disease of "overactive bladder," Wolf claimed, Pharmacia created a market of 21 million potential patients.

Another good candidate for branding is a condition that can be plausibly portrayed as under-diagnosed. Branding such a condition assures potential patients that they are part of a large and credible community of sufferers. For example, in 1999, the FDA approved the antidepressant Paxil for the treatment of "social anxiety disorder," a condition previously known as "shyness."

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In order to convince shy people they had social anxiety disorder, GlaxoSmithKline, the maker of Paxil, hired a PR firm called Cohn and Wolfe. Cohn and Wolfe put together a public awareness campaign called "Imagine being allergic to people," which was allegedly sponsored by a group called the "Social Anxiety Disorders Coalition."

GlaxoSmithKline also recruited celebrities like Ricky Williams, the NFL running back, and paid them to give interviews to the press about their own social anxiety disorder. Finally, they hired academic psychiatrists working on social anxiety disorder and sent them out on the lecture circuit in the top 25 media markets.

The results were remarkable. In the two years before Paxil was approved for social anxiety, there were only about 50 references to social anxiety disorder in the press. But in 1999, during the PR campaign, there were over a billion references.

Within two years Paxil had become the seventh most profitable drug in America, and Cohn and Wolfe had picked up an award for the best PR campaign of 1999. Today, social anxiety disorder, far from being rare, is often described as the third most common mental illness in the world.

It is hard to brand a disease without the help of physicians, of course. So drug companies typically recruit academic "thought leaders" to write and speak about any new conditions they are trying to introduce. It also helps if the physicians believe the branded condition is dangerous.

When AstraZeneca introduced Prilosec (and later Nexium) for heartburn, for example, it famously repositioned heartburn as "gastroesophageal reflux disease," or GERD. But it also commissioned research to demonstrate the devastating consequences of failing to treat it.

If all drugs were harmless, disease branding would be relatively harmless, too. But no drug is completely benign.

For example, Detrol can make elderly people delirious and may cause memory problems. Paxil is associated with sexual dysfunction and dependence. It also carries a black-box warning for suicide in children and adolescents. Side effects like these are a part of every drug. But they are never part of the brand.

The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Carl Elliott.

DR KNOWLES COMMENT

The Pharmaceutical industry has been doing this for years. Just think restless leg syndrome. True health comes from within. Facing your challenges, taking care of your body, and maximizing what you have been given. A healthy spine and nerve system is key. It is time that the american public wake up and not have their future stolen by disease mongering.

Love Your Disease it is keeping you Healthy

Wed, 06 Oct 2010 07:13:17 MDT

LOVE YOUR DISEASE IT IS KEEPING YOU HEALTHY

There are many modalities you can do in health care and disease care to fix your injuries, ailments, symptoms or distress. Whether something is natural or artificial, a drug or an herb, a therapy or a form of bodywork the goal is still to return you to the state you were in before you had the injury, disease, symptom or problem that has disrupted your life. The problem is that this is returning you to the state that developed the problem!

Your symptom, condition or problem didn't make you sick, trying to eliminate it won’t make you well. Your symptom or distress is the end result of the life you have lived up until it happened! It is the messenger that is letting you know to pay attention, to change course, to do something different, to wake up. Fixing the condition will not make you well, it just delays you learning something from your body about the life you have lived.

Symptoms and diseases are the chaos to take us off the track we are on. Rather than follow their cue we have been taught to eliminate the chaos and return to life as we knew it before the problem arose. But that is not good enough anymore. When the alarm goes off you can only hit the snooze button so many times before it causes another problem.

We don't want to be another attempt at a quick fix for you that simply keeps you on the same path your health and life is going. There are plenty of these options out there. Network care is your long term solution to develop new internal strategies for a whole new you. As your spine and nerve system gets healthier a new you is built. As opposed to fixing individual structural distortions or injuries we are helping your body develop the ability to better support itself, protect your nerve system and adapt to life stresses. A stronger healthier internal environment is created as your nerve system evolves with internal tools for healing from within. This allows you to better hear that voice inside. To receive the subtle messages of your body that are directing you before they get so loud and severe that you want to silence the messenger. Taking the path of silencing the messenger is ok… but you must remember that the next messenger that comes will speak even louder, be more toxic and more disruptive to your life as you know it.

As your spine and nerve system gets healthier you are more connected to your source. The subtle cues of your body mind become more apparent so you are self directed to make healthier choices and to direct your life. The goal is not to feel nothing, you can do that with a number of things from aspirin to alcohol. The goal of becoming healthier and more whole is to FEEL EVERYTHING!

There’s Magic in a Healthy Spine!

Suffering Stress Physiology and the Nerve System

Mon, 20 Sep 2010 01:22:53 MDT

Suffering, Stress Physiology and the Nerve System by Dr. Paul Canali

Specific life experiences can trigger significant loss of health, happiness, and sense of purpose. After studying thousands of individual cases, I have found that people are often changed— physically, mentally, and spiritually—by a particularly hurtful, traumatic, or stressful experience or event.

These events or experiences, such as job dissatisfaction, painful childhood, medical mistreatment, loss of a loved one, divorce, a car accident, can exert positive or negative influence on our lives, but this depends on how our Autonomic Nervous System adapts to the stressors.

Amazingly, many illnesses are the direct result of unresolved stressful or traumatic occurrences that overwhelm our nervous system. Our biology gets attached to these events, and unconsciously remains in a defensive mode, acting as if they are still happening.

Even if we have some conscious awareness that our suffering started after a particular event, we feel powerless to do anything about it. What makes this situation particularly difficult is that our biology gets hijacked, which puts us into a fear-based survival mode. This condition has disastrous effects on our health and happiness.

However, the good news is that we have a master regulating system that can positively affect every cell in the body. For the first time in human history we are beginning to see why some people heal and why so many others continually suffer. Most people are so often confused because there are literally hundreds if not thousands of diagnoses and medical conditions. There are numerous specialists, both traditional and nontraditional healthcare providers, each with his or her individual perception of what disease and suffering is.

What if there is a truth-based, unified connection between most of the conditions that plague humanity? What if—finally— there existed a discovery that humans possess an innate internal self-healing, self-regulating Master System? When the Master System is activated people experience Autonomic Nervous System balancing, which can lead to extraordinary changes in physical and psychological health. This System is so powerful that it can affect almost any disease process, and exert a powerful healing response in all areas of our lives.

For many who come to Evolutionary Healing Institute™, the healing effects they experience from UHT™ are the most profound and transformative of their lives.

When we experience a stressful or traumatic event, whether it is emotional or physical, our nervous system automatically goes into a response. The most recognized reactions are fight or flight. In the fight or flight response the body prepares itself for what it believes to be a life-threatening event by directly facing or running away from a challenge. If neither fight nor flight can be successfully engaged, as can be the case for example in traumatic events, a freezing response occurs. All threatening and traumatic events, if not resolved, trap energy in the body. This trapped energy can lead to all sorts of physical and emotional disease and suffering. The good news is that we have an innate system in our bodies that is designed to re-balance us following a traumatic or stressful event.

Post traumatic symptoms are fundamentally incomplete physiological responses suspended in fear. These symptoms will not go away until the responses are discharged and completed. Energy held in immobilization can be transformed.–Peter Levine, PhD, Waking the Tiger

The Autonomic Nervous System, or ANS, will automatically try to discharge this frozen energy by trembling, shaking, emotional release, and temperature changes. This release in turn will be followed by rest and deep states of peace and healing. However, when any part of the fear process is thwarted, as is so often the case in our stressful and unconscious lives, we can become stuck in “Survival Mode.” Survival Mode is what often happens to a soldier returning from war. The war may be over for them on the outside, but on the inside their bodies and minds are acting as if the war is still going on. This state can happen in every day life experience to any one at any time. Anxiety and panic attacks are prime examples of this phenomenon. What this means is that our nervous systems are essentially arrested in a physiological state of fear. This frozen state of trapped energy in the body can wreak havoc on our bodies and minds, without us being aware of what is happening to us. It can be exactly like having your foot on the car’s accelerator and brake at the same time. Working against ourselves without knowing it, we can burn out the balancing mechanisms of our Autonomic Nervous System, and develop numerous and varied emotional and physical symptoms.

Anxiety and despair can become a creative wellspring. When we allow ourselves to experience bodily sensations such as trembling that stem from traumatic symptoms. Held within the symptoms of trauma, are the very energies, potentials and resources necessary for a constructive transformation.–Peter Levine, PhD, Waking the Tiger

Living in Survival Mode is not living. There are varying degrees of severity. It is unconscious to us, and we accept that this is the way life is. Survival Mode shuts down selfawareness; it causes loss of body communication and feedback. This loss opens the door for all kinds of disease and suffering to creep up on us while we are numb and unaware of what is going on... This condition creates a loss of joy, increased anxiety, and a fear-based physiology—a defensive self. We become unable to receive deep pleasure and love. This state is responsible for an incredible amount of suffering which negatively impacts humanity as a whole as our minds can find no peace, and we become lost in an endless stream of thought fears and worries...However, our bodies have the capability to turn off this condition. The system for rebalancing is already built in and waiting to be activated. It simply needs help from a skilled therapist who knows the language.–Dr. Paul Canali, 2006

Healthy Children and Chiropractic

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 16:13:08 MDT

Healthy Children and ChiropracticBy Donald Epstein D.C.Originally Printed in: I.C.P.A. Newsletter January/February 1998Providing health care services to children involves a dimension not often encountered in rendering care to adults. Not only must the child's needs and concerns be addressed, but those of the child's parents as well. The child doesn't have educational bias, is usually simple to care for, and will respond immediately to physiologic changes that enhance life expression. The parents may require more attention to further their knowledge and understanding of health. This article addresses the issue of how to know if a child's health is improving, and how to assure the parent of this.There are two models of health: biomedical and social science. The biomedical model refers to physical symptom status and laboratory tests. The social science model refers to the individual's functional status; the ability to utilize the uniqueness of one's environment and one's experience. It also includes the changes to one's perception, the ability to make healthier choices, and improvement in one's overall quality of life.Health, by definition refers to optimal function physically, mentally and socially, not merely the absence of disease and infirmity. The social science indicators must be considered to fully assess health. Since chiropractic is a non-medical discipline, it is all the more vital that our chiropractic and health assessments not be largely based upon medical indicators. In the course of chiropractic care, it is common for parents to remark that their child's disposition has improved, that he learns better in school, that she is more at peace, that he reacts to stress more effectively, sleeps better, and that in general he is more able to function without restriction. These are all indicators of health. At times a presenting symptom may not reduce or be eliminated, but the child's health will be improving in a variety of other ways.It is important to eliminate inconsistencies in our philosophy, clinical approach, and communication. If we wish to assist in the restoration of spinal integrity (with its associated enhancement of health and well being) through specific adjustment of vertebral subluxations, then our methods of outcome assessment must be consistent with this.Is the spine healthier than at the entrance visit? What is the general trend, and what are the specifics at the time of re-evaluation? Is there a positive improvement in both the correction of subluxations and spinal integrity? And lastly, what is the child's personal assessment or the parent's opinion of the child's status in the following categories:1. Physical State 2. Mental Emotional State 3 Stress Evaluation4. Life enjoyment 5. Overall Quality of life.It is important that the chiropractor not focus more clinical attention on the presenting complaint or symptom than the social science health and wellness indicators. The patient/family member might equate chiropractic care with a particular physical symptom's improvement rather than the goal stated above. Often particular symptoms may intensify during the healing process, while other indicators of health and wellness improve. The presenting complaint may be amongst the last of changes in the health picture. The practitioner must be certain of his or her focus and intent in monitoring the patient's progress. A parent may notice their child has a fever, however the child's behavior may not appear any different than usual. In another instance the child may be less feverish, yet his behavior may be considerably affected. Is the fever in itself a measure of impaired health? Or has the overall picture of the child, including his interaction with his environment, reactions to stress, mood, and sense of humor been viewed? Rather than questioning an adaptation of the body's internal wisdom, such as fever, ask instead about how the patient feels (or appears to feel) about how he feels. In questioning a parent simply shifting the wording from "Tell me about Johnny's symptoms" to "Tell me about Johnny" will yield a far greater spectrum of information about your patient. The biomedical approach deals with the conditions only. The social science indicators refer to the person in which the condition is present. As chiropractors, it is the person, not the condition we seek to help. A recent research paper titled A Retrospective Assessment of Network Care Using a Survey of Self Rated Health, Wellness and Quality of Life1 presented the largest epidemiological study of a chiropractic population to date. It represents the largest study of chiropractic patients for such a wide range of health and wellness indicators. It established the initial validation for a new instrument of patient self evaluation for the categories mentioned above. Patient's reported significant, positive changes in all the mentioned domains of health, as well as an enhanced quality of life. The improvements reported suggest that this particular application of chiropractic is associated with significant benefits in all categories. This study of 2,818 patients, conducted through multiple departments at The University of California, Irvine not only documented the health benefits of chiropractic care, but has established a new basis for evaluation of the health and wellness benefits of non medical disciplines.Since the overall health and wellness benefits continued throughout the duration of care in the population reported in this study, it would be unfortunate to identify the goal of care as the reduction of a particular symptom, and miss the greater implications of long term vertebral subluxation based chiropractic care to the child's health. With accountability to our objectives and alignment of our procedures and communications, we can use safe, effective and gentle applications of chiropractic adjustments to position ourselves as leaders amongst the non-medical approaches to the health and well being of children.1 Blanks R., Schuster T., Dobson M., A Retrospective Assessment of Network Care Using a Survey of Self-Rated Health, Wellness and Quality of Life. Journal of Vertebral Subluxation Research 1997 1 (4) 15-30

Reactive Proactive or Wellness Care

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:05:30 MDT

Reactive, Proactive or Wellness Care?

What type of health care do you choose? People often mistakenly think the answer to this has to do with the modality they choose: medications, homeopathy, chiropractic, acupuncture, nutrition. The truth is you could choose any of those modalities and be in the same type of health care. This is because the type of health care your receive has to do with you more than your practitioner.

Reactive care is unfortunately what we have been misled to be health care. Reactive care is when you experience something you don’t like and you react. Most of the time people do something to alleviate whatever they are experiencing that they do not like. For example someone experiences a headache and takes an over the counter medication to relieve the symptom. Someone else may have the same symptom and utilize acupuncture, chiropractic, a homeopathic remedy or a nutritional supplement. Regardless of what you use you are participating in allopathic reactive care. Reactive care is disease care not health care. There is nothing wrong with reactive care. There are many lives saved by reactive care as well as much suffering reduced. As a culture we have generally made Reactive Care, removing an ache pain symptom or condition, health care. However, this is the lowest form of health care and has little to nothing to do with health. It has everything to do with eliminating your experience of your body. This type of care is largely responsible for our country’s health care crisis.

Our culture is beginning to progress from this type of care to Proactive care. This is participating in some kind of health care modality and discipline to improve your overall health before you have a disease or condition. Most commonly this begins with a person realizing that one or more family members have a condition such as heart disease. They decide that they do not want to end up like their parent or grandparent and start to change their diet, exercise, get their blood pressure checked, and basically improve their fitness level. This is far better than reacting to your state of health when you first experience chest pain. However, it is still based upon a condition or disease. Now we are simply trying to avoid a disease or more truthfully trying to avoid death. Is this the loftiest goal we can have for our life and our well-being, to avoid death?

Wellness care truly has nothing to do with a condition or disease. Wellness care is choosing a health care modality or course of action simply because it is of benefit to your well-being. Wellness care means you are exercising, using a nutritional supplement, receiving spinal adjustments because you want more not less. You are making a lifestyle decision. You want to live a fuller more productive life. You want a greater quality of life in every area. Instead of being a victim of life's stresses you want to be able to adapt to all the physical, chemical and emotional stresses that happen in life effortlessly. You long to be the greatest expression of your body’s wisdom you can be. As Nelson Mandela said “We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.” Whatever health care modality you use we encourage you to choose it for wellness reasons as frequently as possible. Your life will thank you.

After all if you dont have your health you have

Sat, 26 Jun 2010 10:01:35 MDT

Recently I was doing a presentation for local corporations employees on nutrition.I asked the group to raise their hands if they took multivitamins.Generally, in Boulder Colorado when asking this question to a group at least three quarters of the room raises their hands. In this particular corporation, about five people out of 30 raised their hands.Clearly demonstrating why this corporation was having someone come and speak to their employees about health and wellness.Quite surprised, that as a group so few took a multivitamin I asked why and one of the people responded that they are expensive.This shocked me even more.While there is certainly a range of different quality multivitamins any person can get the average low end brand for $40 a bottle at any grocery store. My concern in teaching this group about health and wellness was not multi vitamins and their benefit but rather employees attitudes towards health and wellbeing.

Our culture’s thought process on health has been degraded for years into a crisis care thought process.The general concept being that we allow our health to degrade and only put attention and funds towards it when there is a crisis or illness.And then at that point, we take action to return our body to the state it was just before he had the crisis or illness.Additionally at this point, once the damage has been done we expect someone else, generally an insurance company, to pay for putting us back together.This is the lowest way we can possibly interact with our health, our greatest asset.

After all you know that the person that commented about the high cost of a generic multivitamin probably spends much more money on things like cable TV, cell phones, cigarettes, Starbucks, pizza and other areas that they could reroute there funds to a simple thing that would really equate to “health insurance.” I shared with the group that one of our family members had worked his whole life raising several kids and grandkids only to find himself, shortly after retirement, living in a long-term care facility for approximately $5,000 a month.He worked his whole life at the sacrifice of his own well-being and rarely took proactive steps to keep themselves healthy and well because this was not something he was taught.I asked the group, would you rather spend a few dollars a day on your health during your life to ensure a great quality of life or spend what will most surely be $10,000 a month by the time the people in their 30s and 40s now are at a retirement age because they fail to invest in the health during the life.

Understand, when it comes to your health and well-being, you either spend the resources now or you spend them later.If you put energy and money towards your health while you’re healthy the amounts are generally small, the activities and products enjoyable, with results you have the opportunity to enjoy.If you put the energy and money toward your health later the cost is generally large, the activities and products not enjoyable, and the resulting process something you don’t enjoy.The choice is always yours. Remember that healthy people make healthy choicesand that after all, if you don’t have your health, you have….

“Chiropractic is health insurance, premiums small, and dividends large.” B J Palmer, DC

Your body has a story to tell you

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:16:32 MST

In today's health care world people are quite familiar with the map of the disease process. Determining that we have a symptom that we deem needs to be removed, finding someone to name it, grade its severity, and devise a treatment plan is all familiar territory. However, this map is not the road to greater health and wellness. It is the map towards disease care and further anesthetizing our body-mind. In fact we are so indoctrinated to this that we don't know how to recognize anything other than the stages of disease. The stages of the downward spiral of a lack of health. We know that a "health care provider" (more aptly a "disease care provider") will tell us you have reached stage 3 of the cancer which is serious and when you reach stage 5 it will be so aggressive that it will no longer be treatable. This is why people so rarely find true health, healing and wholeness. They are using the wrong map!

What would it be like if you jumped out of that map and onto a completely different one? A map of healing and wellness. What would the journey of the upwards spiral toward greater wholeness look like? And if we want greater health, vitality, energy, longevity and wellbeing isn't that the map we truly want to use?

This is what Donald Epstein, D.C. (the developer of Network Care) set out to do with the 12 stages of Healing. In observing tens of thousands of people experience enhanced growth, and healing through network care he mapped out the landscape of healing. What does it look and feel like as we move from suffering to community. Just as there are changes to the shape, quality and function of the cells of your body as a disease process progresses which are identifiable. There are changes to how you breathe, move, talk and experience life as you become more whole. Familiarity with this map will make the healing journey less of a foreign territory.

Disease care is the process of eliminating your experience of your body. Eliminating what you feel that you don't like so your life can be as it was before the pain, symptom, and distress appeared. It is about putting you back to sleep. Health care or healing is about feeling everything, it is about waking up, it is about uncovering the messages of your body-mind and receiving their wisdom. True healing involves trust in the wisdom of your body and its rhythms.

The 12 Stages of Healing and the Somato-Respiratory Integration are your map and your exercises to connect you to the journey of greater wellness. It is a revolutionary approach that includes specific exercises to enhance somatic awareness and respiration. This promotes the ability to focus attention on gross and subtle body movements and rhythms, self-directed breathing, awareness of one's tension, and verbal statement's reflecting ones inner state. Understanding and recognizing how you feel, talk, breath and move (your rhythms) as stages in the healing journey will aid you in your connection to your healing process. Instead of being alienated by what you feel and from your body you can develop trust and validity for your experience as an expression of your body's wisdom and its needs. Your body has a story to tell you... you may hear it, but are you listening?

There's Magic in a Healthy Spine!

Are you normal

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:16:32 MST

Are you "Normal"?THE 2 WAYS TO DETERMINEWHETHER YOU HAVE"NORMAL" OR "ABNORMAL"HEALTH AND FUNCTION

‘I ‘lie ( ‘etitral Nerve System is composed ol (lie brain, spinal cord and spinal nerves. ‘I ‘lie ( ‘entral Nerve System totally controls all function and Itea Ii rig in the human body. ‘lime Central Nerve System is located inside the bones of the spine and it totally controls all function and healIng the human body. ‘I ‘lie most common and likely way to interfure with the Central Nerve System is with the spine. "Abnormal" position of' the spine and subluxation (spinal inisal ignnient) will interfere with (lie Central Nerve System. ‘Ihis interference will cause the organs of the body to not function or heal "normally".

Vital in/~rma(ion travels' fron, the brain and spinal cord to all o/the parts ojthc' body. flu!, no! only does' information travel clown f/ic nerve, but at the same ti~ne in/brmation from the peripheral parts' of the body is' being sent hack to the brain and spinal cord. When this' infor,nation is inlet ered with, a problem arises in the body.-/)aniel .1. Murphy, IX ~, Spinal Biomechanics, Harrison, 1992, p.366

Before any body part or any body function can be described as "abnormal" or "unhealthy", we must have a clear definition of what "normal" is. I~or example, if normal blood pressure is 1 20/80, then a person with blood pressure of 150/100 would have high, "abnormal" blood pressure.

In only the last Few years, medical, anatomical and engineering researchers have been able to clearly detine "normal" spinal alignment. This research has been published in the world's most prestigious medical journals.

‘there are two proven ways to evaluate spinal alignment:I) postural examination2) x-rays

Our oflice utilizes both procedures to evaluate a patient's spine atid Central Nerve System.

W heim looking at a person front tIme l'ront (lie spine must he straight. ‘I ‘he head, shoulders, hips and feet shun 1(1 be lined up. When looking at a person Irouim time side, the ears should be hack over the shoujldei's and the shsulders ;iiuli ki be hack over the pelvis l'ustni'e is the window to your spine.

When look i rig at the flout view X ray, I he spinal hones (vertebrae) iii mistalso he straight. ‘ lime hones iii list not be i'otated nor tilted and no cut-vat mires

(scol losis) can he present.1 he side view X-ray nuisi reveal tince O3' ares. Ihe must iii o;t~iiit61° are is in the ieek (cervical spine). Iltis ate is known ~ts the "Arc ut I lie" because uiciital lire ciipulses travel directly hum the brali down thispail oh the spinal (old It) bri ig tile to the test ui the body. People wlttt lose their arc oh lile do not live as lung because it causes severe obstruction to (lie brai i, spinal cord and nerves ((‘entral Nerve System).

the pictures below show "normal'' posture and "normal' spine position and al igninent.

Any "abnormal" position of the spine, misalignment oh the hones or any changes in these curves indicate a serious problem. It is absolutely vital to understand this point: any changes from "normal" will interfere with and eventually damage the Central Nerve System. liiterference and damage to the Central Nerve System will always result in "abnormal" function of the body, improper healing and poor health.

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I i~ are hieing adjusted today, we have hund your spine 111(1 ( ‘~‘nti il Niervc System 1(1 he ~ubnoiilmill, ( ‘on'eetivc eluropi'aetic id1iistitieiit~, l'ctoic "11(0 nial'' spinal posit ion and alignment over I me. Fins clmunu~ite; ‘&utriil Nerve System interfei'eiice allowing your body to ituictioim and heal "mmurniallv'' once again at I OO~~ oh your ( iod -given potential.

WOW YOUR MIRACULOUS BODY

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:16:32 MST

Did you know that your brain weighs three pounds?

It holds 100 trillion bits of information in a lifetime.

The brain has 100 billion nerve cells.

If you put the information that your brain can hold over a 70-year life into encyclopedias, they would stack 442 miles high.

Your bone marrow produces 8 million new red blood cells per minute.

Each footstep you take places three times your body weight on that foot.

You walk 77,000 miles in a lifetime.

Every 12 months your body rebuilds itself.

When you take a bite into an apple, it turns into skin, heart, lungs, kidney cells, etc.

And the million-dollar question is, "And you don't think that your body has the ability to heal from the flu, cure the common cold, recover from cancer, heal itself from liver failure and correct asthma?" When you truly know the facts of the human body, it is absurd to think that you need a drug, a pill or a potion to cure something when the body has the ability to do the things it does, all created from two cells: a sperm and an egg. We must become Wowed with our bodies, mesmerized by the concept that our body not only created itself, recreates itself and all healing comes from the brain. When one is in total touch with the fact that his or her body is amazing and will heal itself from all disease when given the chance. At that point, we can start taking control of our own health. As long as we make proper spinal adjustments that remove the nerve interference to the human potential, get proper sleep, drink proper water, eat a balanced diet and exercise, the miracles in your body will explode.

The innate intelligence of the human body knows more in one second than you could ever know, no matter how much you think you study or you think you know. The innate intelligence of the body has been building and running millions of bodies for millions of years. Educated men and women will never find the cure for sickness and disease because they are looking in the wrong place. The cure for all sickness and disease is from within. Get your within expressing itself at 100 percent, and your life will change spiritually, physically, financially, emotionally, etc. Get the big idea, and all else follows.

ARE YOU HEADED TOWARDS THE MOON

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:16:32 MST

We all want to live life to the fullest. We know that without our health we have nothing. To be successful, we must first have clearly defined goals and a method of getting there that is consistent and aligned with that goal. An everyday example of this could be something as simple as deciding to bake a cake (goal), and then carefully following the recipe (means of achievement). On a grander scale, it could be deciding collectively to land on the moon and then developing the necessary technology and strategies to actually do it. Now imagine what would happen if our goal were not clear or our means of achievement were not aligned with our stated goal. Instead of a cake we might get a meatloaf, and instead of landing on the moon we would become lost in the vastness of space. Our nations current health care crisis is a direct result of not having a clear defined goal or a method for achieving health. When Americans are asked what is most important to them, being healthy is placed before all other goals, including having good relationships with friends and family or financial security. However, individually and as a nation, our health continues to decline despite possessing the most advanced medical technology, the highest prescription drug use in the world, and spending more money than any other country (over $1.r trillion per year) on health care. If health is our most important goal, why are we failing to achieve it? Because we have not properly defined health, and because we are not consistent with our purpose. Our first step is to have a clear definition of our goal. The World Health Organization defines health as a state of physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity. This definition describes health in terms of developing those strategies that enhance our bodies functioning and result in a higher overall quality of life. However, is this the way we typically measure health? For most of this century, health has been measured by the suppression of symptoms (i.e. lack of symptoms = health). The dilemma that we face is that except in times of crisis or trauma, treating symptoms has not been shown to improve a person's health or quality of life. Instead of relying exclusively on symptoms, quality of life measurements need to be used as a yardstick for measuring health outcomes. Having defined our goal, we now need to determine what is the appropriate means for achieving our objective. In other words, are we really doing what we say we are doing? The prevailing model of health care in America is not truly health care... it is sickness care. The allopathic or curing model relies on waiting for a person to become sick and then intervening with drugs and surgery. If drugs and surgeries make a person healthy, shouldn't the healthiest people be the one's taking the most drugs or with the fewest body parts? Experience and common sense tells us that this is not true and that methods must be found that are in alignment with our goal. How does chiropractic relate to our health goals? Chiropractic is a vitalistic approach to increasing the well-being and quality of life of individuals of all ages. Chiropractic is not allopathic, it is not a treatment for any specific symptom or disease process. Chiropractic adjustments restore and improve the health of the spine and integrity of the nervous system. The body is a self-healing and self regulating organism. The master control system of the body is the nerve system. A nerve system operating without interference or disturbance will do a better job of creating a health internal environment as well as properly adapt you to the external environment. This is supported by a retrospective study performed on 3,000 individuals receiving Network Chiropractic care. This was performed at the University of California at Irvine medical school. The vast majority of participants in this study reported substantial improvements in a wide range of quality of life indicators. These included more energy, more flexibility, less depression and anxiety, less use of medication and a greater overall satisfaction with careers and relationships. The benefits received also continued to grow as long as the person was under care. There were no perceived maximum benefits to the care. Knowing exactly what health is and taking an approach that is consistent with your goal will greatly improve your chances for success in achieving greater health, life and longevity. Your body is the only place you have for your spirit to reside, ensure that it is a vessel that you can live a life of length and quality within.

There’s Magic in A Healthy Spine!™

KIDS CORNER Can Childhood Falls Be Creating Undiagnosed Problems In Your Child

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:16:32 MST

As a concerned parent, you want the best for your child and no doubt wonder if your child is as healthy as he or she could be. Several factors determine your child's overall health. These include: diet, exercise, proper rest, emotional and spiritual support, and a properly functioning nervous system. A major component for health is the communication between your child's brain and body. This vital link controls the growth, repair, and function of every tissue and organ. The spinal cord sends messages from the brain throughout the body via billions of nerves. Interference (nerve pressure or irritation) places the body in a state of disharmony. This can lead to decreased immune function and sickness. Starting with the birthing process itself, our bodies are subjected to many spinal traumas. Even the most "natural" of births can cause stress and strain to the tiny developing spine. This initial damage can be compounded when the child is developing proper head support and learning to sit up, crawl, stand, and walk. During this time of rapid spinal growth, these tiny bumps and falls can be the cause of many unexplained health problems. The home is the primary site where the young child receives spinal injuries. A study, conducted by the National Safety Council, discovered that nearly 50% of children fall headfirst from a high place (changing table, bed, etc.) during their first year of life. Many of these falls go undetected. Unfortunately, although immediate symptoms may not be noticeable, spinal health can be compromised. Preschools, day care centers, and other groups are often breeding grounds’ for a variety of childhood diseases. Children with weakened immune function due to undetected and uncorrected spinal injury may suffer from chronic ear infections, asthma, allergies and other so called *normal' childhood diseases. School is the most common place for accidents to occur in five to eighteen year olds. A 1990 study, conducted by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission revealed that almost a quarter of a million Children under the age of 15 were treated for injuries related to playground equipment. The majority of these accidents are falls, with approximately 50% resulting in head and neck trauma. Bicycles are also a source of childhood trauma. More than 50,000 children a year are treated for head (not wearing a helmet) and neck trauma. Common childhood activities, including surfing, skate boarding, water slides, horseback riding, and roller-skating, are often associated with falls that can result in pediatric spinal trauma. These types of activities and traumas can cause the spinal vertebrae to lose their normal motion and position. The delicate nerve tissue that these bones house can be damaged, impairing the brain's ability to control the associated tissues and organs. Many adult spinal problems actually begin in childhood. If left uncorrected, childhood spinal problems may lead to more serious conditions later in life, 'As the tree is bent, so grows the tree." Today, many progressive parents are choosing conservative chiropractic care to help maximize their child's own natural defenses. Parents of children who receive regular chiropractic care often report that their kids seem healthier than other children, and that they get fewer colds and other childhood diseases. Children should have regular wellness visits to their Doctor of Chiropractic. With appropriate chiropractic care, these spinal problems can be located and corrected, restoring normal spinal and nervous system function. The chiropractic approach to health is safe and natural. Therefore, your chiropractor may be the best doctor to help your child! Parents should feel encouraged to have a Doctor of Chiropractic as part of their health professionals network. To obtain more information on current health trends and alternative health approaches, and for information on how chiropractic can help your family, visit the Children's Chiropractic Information Center of Boulder at Network Family Wellness Center. For more information, and/or to schedule a FREE consultation with the doctors, call Drs. Daniel & Richelle Knowles 303.998.1000